When I'm writing a novel, I'm usually just trying to write about things that are interesting to me. — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
Any independent bookstore that has managed to survive is the best place to do a reading. — 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
For a writer, you definitely do not want to be in the mainstream. You want to be on the edge because that's… — 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
“As someone who has to teach for a living, I shouldn't be saying this, but the planet can do quite well without… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“Ruth was a novelist, and novelists, Oliver asserted, should have cats and books.” — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
I think all characters are facets of the writer. In a way, they have to be if you're going to write them… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
People have always heard voices. Sometimes they're called shamans, sometimes they're called mad, and sometimes they're called fiction writers. I always feel… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
Fiction is an elemental force, which has the power to shape reality in its own image - or images, I should say… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
There's something about the idea of writing, and thinking about writing as a form of prayer - the way as a writer… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
That's what it feels like when I write, like I have this beautiful world in my head, but when I try to… — 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
The relationship between reader and writer is reciprocal in a way. We co-create each other. We are constantly emerging out of the… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
Writing a book is a way of thinking to me, the only way of thinking that I have found successful. — 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
