All Quotes

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

I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land. ”

Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies. ”

I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist. ”

Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write. ”

In all big cities the style of life is the same. Same endless array of restaurants; same big museums with the usual suspects; same anonymity, which can be thrilling when you're young but which I found got tiresome. ”

If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure. ”

How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence. ”

I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet. ”

It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be used for long in such a fashion. ”