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Any independent bookstore that has managed to survive is the best place to do a reading.
~ Ruth Ozeki
Any
Best
Bookstore
Independent
Place
Reading
Survive
To Survive
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Canada has always been a great place for literature. It's strong and growing stronger, and there will always be reading, and there will always be great writers.
~ Ruth Ozeki
Always
Been
Canada
Great
Great Place
Growing
Literature
Place
Reading
Strong
Stronger
Will
Writers
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Even though I was making documentaries, my films had fictional elements to them. I think I like blurring those distinctions because so much of what we see on television purports to be the truth, but it's often largely imaginary - or wishful thinking, or any number of less honorable things.
~ Ruth Ozeki
Any
Because
Distinctions
Documentaries
Elements
Even
Fictional
Films
Had
Honorable
I Think
Imaginary
Largely
Less
Like
Making
Much
Number
Often
See
Television
Them
Things
Think
Thinking
Those
Though
Truth
Wishful
Wishful Thinking
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Fiction is an elemental force, which has the power to shape reality in its own image - or images, I should say - because reality, like light, exists not only as a single point or particle, but also as an array of possibilities.
~ Ruth Ozeki
Also
Array
Because
Elemental
Exists
Fiction
Force
Image
Images
Light
Like
Only
Own
Particle
Point
Possibilities
Power
Reality
Say
Shape
Should
Single
Which
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For a writer, you definitely do not want to be in the mainstream. You want to be on the edge because that's where the vantage point is. That's where you can see.
~ Ruth Ozeki
Because
Definitely
Edge
Mainstream
Point
See
Vantage
Vantage Point
Want
Where
Writer
You
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For me, writing is a way of thinking. I write in a journal a lot. I'm a very impatient person, so writing and meditation allow me to slow down and watch my mind; they are containers that keep me in place, hold me still.
~ Ruth Ozeki
Allow
Down
Hold
I Write
Impatient
Journal
Keep
Lot
Me
Meditation
Mind
Person
Place
Slow
Still
Thinking
Very
Watch
Way
Write
Writing
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I am really interested in the way we relate to time. In particular, the way readers and writers talk to each other. Casting your voice out into the future is very beautiful to me.
~ Ruth Ozeki
Am
Beautiful
Casting
Each
Future
I Am
Interested
Me
Other
Out
Particular
Readers
Really
Relate
Talk
Time
Very
Voice
Way
Writers
Your
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I did documentary film for a long time, and I spent a lot of time behind the camera, fervently wishing that the reality I was filming would conform to my narrative propriety. But you can't control it.
~ Ruth Ozeki
Behind
Camera
Conform
Control
Did
Documentary
Documentary Film
Film
Filming
Long
Long Time
Lot
Narrative
Propriety
Reality
Spent
Time
Wishing
Would
You
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I live in a beautiful part of British Columbia, and I run through the rainforest. I do have to look over my shoulder to check for a cougar or a wolf though, so sometimes it's not the most relaxing.
~ Ruth Ozeki
Beautiful
British
British Columbia
Check
Columbia
Live
Look
Most
Over
Part
Relaxing
Run
Shoulder
Sometimes
Though
Through
Wolf
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I think all characters are facets of the writer. In a way, they have to be if you're going to write them convincingly.
~ Ruth Ozeki
Characters
Facets
Going
I Think
Them
Think
Way
Write
Writer
You
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I think that all writing is in search of lost time. I'm starting to realise that very clearly.
~ Ruth Ozeki
Clearly
I Think
Lost
Realise
Search
Starting
Think
Time
Very
Writing
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I've always played that edge of fact and fiction. I used to be a filmmaker, and certainly in film that's a line that filmmakers cross more readily and more easily than novelists.
~ Ruth Ozeki
Always
Certainly
Cross
Easily
Edge
Fact
Fiction
Film
Filmmaker
Filmmakers
Line
More
Novelists
Played
Readily
Than
Used
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Inspiration comes from everything from the entire world, and it's hard to pinpoint one thing. I can trace one inspiration to the writing of 13th-century Zen master Dogen Zenji, who writes beautifully about time.
~ Ruth Ozeki
About
Beautifully
Entire
Entire World
Everything
Hard
I Can
Inspiration
Master
One Thing
Pinpoint
Thing
Time
Trace
Who
World
Writes
Writing
Zen
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It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a ream of paper from Staples for $4.
~ Ruth Ozeki
Costs
Films
Make
Much
Novel
Paper
Thing
Whole
Write
You
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It makes me nuts, the idea that if you put a political struggle at the heart of your book, then it has to be that the author - me - is trying in some way to push my views onto my readers.
~ Ruth Ozeki
Author
Book
Heart
Idea
Makes
Me
Nuts
Onto
Political
Push
Put
Readers
Some
Struggle
Then
Trying
Views
Way
You
Your
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Maybe all teenagers feel like they don't fit in. I never felt like a cool kid. I remember being bullied for being Asian.
~ Ruth Ozeki
Asian
Being
Bullied
Cool
Feel
Felt
Fit
I Remember
Kid
Like
Maybe
Never
Remember
Teenagers
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My mind is like a gyre, and odd juxtapositions happen.
~ Ruth Ozeki
Happen
Like
Mind
Odd
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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 lucky that I live in a culture where fiction writing is legal and not seen as pathology.
~ Ruth Ozeki
Always
Culture
Feel
Fiction
Fiction Writers
Fiction Writing
Heard
Legal
Live
Lucky
Mad
Pathology
People
Seen
Sometimes
Voices
Where
Writers
Writing
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The American society around me looked at me and saw Japanese. Then, when I was 19, I went to Japan for the first time. And suddenly - what a shock - I realized I wasn't Japanese; they saw me as American. It was an enormous relief. Now I just appreciate being exactly in the middle.
~ Ruth Ozeki
American
American Society
Appreciate
Around
Being
Enormous
Exactly
First
First Time
Japan
Japanese
Just
Looked
Me
Middle
Now
Realized
Relief
Saw
Shock
Society
Suddenly
Then
Time
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The relationship between reader and writer is reciprocal in a way. We co-create each other. We are constantly emerging out of the relationship we have with others.
~ Ruth Ozeki
Between
Constantly
Each
Emerging
Other
Others
Out
Reader
Reciprocal
Relationship
Way
Writer
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