Yann Martel

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I don't know anything about writing, to be honest.

I just know vocabulary and sentences.

I write at the level of sentences.

I love punctuation.

I love the skeleton structure of punctuation.

I like words.

I like spelling.

I remember, maybe because my first tongue was French, and English spelling makes no sense.

But I always take pleasure in how disappear has one S and two P's.

For some reason, I always noticed that, and I can never spell family.

I remember we used to write writer, written writer.

It makes no sense that pronunciation, that the double constant would affect the pronunciation of the vowel before that.

It shouldn't be after.

So I remember when I start writing, occasionally I wrote down that I'm a writer, and I wrote writer with two Ts, which always lowered people's expectations.

So I like spelling and I like sentence structure.

And through that, I feed it by doing all my research and I construct sentences and they somehow come to life.

So am I. Yes, I had, the publishing world is very slow, very sloth-like.

And so I had six weeks in which to, I had nothing to do and I happened to be in Mexico.

And I thought of my, I was in Mexico without my family for one week.