Yann Martel
Yann Martel
Yann Martelis a Spanish-born Canadian author best known for the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi, a #1 international bestseller published in more than 50 territories. It has sold more than 12 million copies worldwide and spent more than a year on the Bestseller Lists of the New York Times and The Globe and Mail, among many other bestseller lists. It was adapted to the screen and directed by Ang Lee, garnering four Oscarsincluding Best Director and won the...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 June 1963
CitySalamanca, Spain
CountryCanada
I chose the name Pi because it's an irrational number (one with no discernable pattern). Yet scientists use this irrational number to come to a "rational" understanding of the universe. To me, religion is a bit like that, "irrational" yet with it we come together we come to a sound understanding of the universe.
We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
No one dies of nausea, but it can seriously sap the will to live.
To me, the research is a way of exploring what it means to be alive.
Don’t you bully me with your politeness!
The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.
I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air. Only when they threw me overboard did I begin to have doubts.
As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.
I have read that there are two fears that cannot be trained out of us: the startle reaction upon hearing an unexpected noise, and vertigo. I would like to add a third, to wit, the rapid and direct approch of a known killer
Quickly you make rash decisions. You dismiss your last allies: hope and trust. There, you've defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an impression, has triumphed over you.
How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter?
In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.
Christianity is a religion in a rush.
If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood.