Yann Martel Mind Quotations

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

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?

Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness. ..

The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering. I should turn to God

High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate your thoughts. The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar.

The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar.

The animals might embody certain traits. We think of tigers as being ferocious, etc. But to my mind, it was the other way around: the humans embodied certain animal traits.