Yann Martel Stories Quotations

I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.

Most of us get our history through story.

I have a story that will make you believe in God.

Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.

So you want another story?" Uhh... no. We would like to know what really happened." Doesn't the telling of something always become a story?" Uhh... perhaps in English. In Japanese a story would have an element of invention in it. We don't want any invention. We want the 'straight facts,' as you say in English." Isn't telling about something--using words, English or Japanese--already something of an invention? Isn't just looking upon this world already something of an invention?

I know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't make you see higher or further or differently. You want a flat story. An immobile story. You want dry, yeastless factuality.

In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

India is a place where all stories are possible. You forget that the imagination can take hold of anything and contemplate it and love it and describe it.

I can only tell my story, what you believe is up to you.