Yann Martel

A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe. ↗

— Yann Martel

#image #least #movie #novelist #page

A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things. ↗

— Yann Martel

#how #imagined #might #movie #out

Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it. ↗

— Yann Martel

#be happy #doing #good #happy #know

A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality. ↗

— Yann Martel

#gives #great #hard #literary #literary work

Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea. ↗

— Yann Martel

#books #brilliant #center #club #event

You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time. ↗

— Yann Martel

#death #human #individual #measure #out

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. ↗

— Yann Martel

#describing #good #image #mind #reader

Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts. ↗

— Yann Martel

#emotions #much #relating #thoughts #words

The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story. ↗

— Yann Martel

#fable #moral #story #temporary

The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book. ↗

— Yann Martel

#cinema #different #language #movie #prose