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.
Yann MartelFiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths. As for nonfiction, for history, it may be real, but its truth is slippery, hard to access, with no fixed meaning bolted to it. If history doesn't become story, it dies to everyone except the historian.
Yann MartelI can't live for more than four years outside of Canada. I'm Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.
Yann MartelWhen your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.
Yann Martel