“Don’t waste a single moment of your precious life! Wake up now! And now! And now! 6.” — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories. — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
What if I travel so far away in my dreams that I can't get back in time to wake up? — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
But in the time it takes to say now, now is already over. It's already then. — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
I think that all writing is in search of lost time. I'm starting to realise that very clearly. — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
Life is fleeting. Don't waste a single moment of your precious life. Wake up now! And now! And now! — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“time isn’t something you can spread out like butter or jam, and death isn’t going to hang around and wait for you… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“But memories are time beings, too, like cherry blossoms or ginkgo leaves; for a while they are beautiful, and then they fade… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
The past is weird. I mean, does it really exist ? It feels like it exists, but where is it ? And… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
I have a pretty good memory, but memories are time beings, too, like cherry blossoms or ginkgo leaves; for a while they… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“And what does it mean to waste time anyway? If you waste time is it lost forever? And if time is lost… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
I am really interested in the way we relate to time. In particular, the way readers and writers talk to each other.… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
By the time we, consumers, are aware of processes like genetic engineering, they're already being done. It's sort of like the war… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“Time plays tricks on mothers. It teases you with breaks and brief caesuras, only to skip wildly forward, bringing breathtaking changes to… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
And if you decide not to read anymore, hey, no problem, because you're not the one I was waiting for anyway. But… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
Do all kids have to worry about their parents’ mental health? The way society is set up, parents are supposed to be… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes from everything from the entire world, and it's hard to pinpoint one thing. I can trace one inspiration to the… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“Do not think that time simply flies away. Do not understand “flying” as the only function of time. If time simply flew… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
I did documentary film for a long time, and I spent a lot of time behind the camera, fervently wishing that the… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
It takes a long time to write a book. I'm not going to spend that much time trying to deliver a message.… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“Old Jiko is supercareful with her time. She does everything really really slowly, even when she's just sitting on the veranda, looking… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“Hi! My name is Nao, and I am a time being. Do you know what a time being is? Well, if you… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
Both life and death manifest in every moment of existence. Our human body appears and disappears moment by moment, without cease, and… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“Do not think that time simply flies away. Do not understand “flying” as the only function of time. If time simply flew… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“... and I could imagine myself searching for lost time under the tree ...” — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight lines and architecture, that she could situate herself in human time and history.” — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
..I am a time being. Do you know what a time being is? Well, if you give me a moment, I will… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“I find myself drawn to literature more now than in the past; not the individual works as much as the idea of… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“Everything in the universe is constantly changing, and nothing stays the same, and we must understand how quickly time flows by if… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
The American society around me looked at me and saw Japanese. Then, when I was 19, I went to Japan for the… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“this is what temporial stuttering FEELS LIKE like a stut stut STUTTERY RUSHING FORWARD in TIME WITHOUT a MOMENT OR an INSTANT… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“Time itself is being, he wrote, and all being is time . . . In essence, everything in the entire universe is intimately linked with… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“Time plays tricks on mothers. It teases you with breaks and brief caesuras, only to skip wildly forward, bringing breathtaking changes to your baby's… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share
“Everything seemed to grow blacker as I sat there, except for the fireflies whose tiny pulsing lights drew arcs through the dark summer air.… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share
That's what it feels like when I write, like I have this beautiful world in my head, but when I try to remember it… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share
“Premonitions are coincidences waiting to happen,” he said, without looking up. “I” — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share
“As someone who has to teach for a living, I shouldn't be saying this, but the planet can do quite well without books.” — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share
Life is fleeting. Don't waste a single moment of your precious life. Wake up now! And now! And now! — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share
“Do not think that time simply flies away. Do not understand “flying” as the only function of time. If time simply flew away, a… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share
“INSTRUCTIONS FOR ZAZEN First of all, you have to sit down, which you’re probably already doing. The traditional way is to sit on a… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share
The wondrous thing about nature, her gift to us, is her wanton promiscuity. She reproduces herself with abandon, with teeming infinite generosity. — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share
“this feeling of alive is not so easy to experience. Even although life is a thing that seems to have some kind of weight… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share
Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories. — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share
It was really a means-of-production problem. It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share
“Adjunct teachers are the professorial equivalent of the migrant Mexican farm laborers hired during harvest. If you can get a good contract at the… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share
She missed the built environment of New York City. It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight lines and architecture, that she could… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share
