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Yann Martel


Canadian
June 25, 1963
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Cinema is incredibly concise.


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I'm still learning my craft.


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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time.
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A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.
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Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.
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The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.
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Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
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I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.
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My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?
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Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
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Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect.
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