Ruth Ozeki Quotes

There's something about the idea of writing, and thinking about writing as a form of prayer - the way as a writer you call out into the world and throw your words into the world. You're not praying to a god, but you're almost conjuring a reader to arrive. That's what books do: they're an invitation to readers.

~ Ruth Ozeki

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There's something about Vonnegut's deadpan irony that I really like. And I like Borges' puzzle structure.

~ Ruth Ozeki

About Irony Like Puzzle Really Something Structure

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What's fascinating to me is the way that multiple stories go into creating any world - a fictional world, but certainly the world that we live in as well. Of course, I cannot control that world. I can just control the fictional world.

~ Ruth Ozeki

Any Cannot Certainly Control Course Creating Fascinating Fictional Go I Can Just Live Me Multiple Stories Way Well World

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When I start writing these novels, I go into them with a spirit of inquiry rather than to substantiate prejudices I had in the beginning. If you don't do that, you can't write good characters.

~ Ruth Ozeki

Beginning Characters Go Good Had In The Beginning Inquiry Novels Prejudices Rather Spirit Start Than Them Write Writing You

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When I write fiction, I have the illusion of being able to control these fictional worlds and these characters, and to make them say what I want them to say. Of course, the problem is that it is an illusion, and by the end of it you realize that you're not in control of it at all; the characters have taken over, and they're driving the vehicle.

~ Ruth Ozeki

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When I'm writing a novel, I'm usually just trying to write about things that are interesting to me.

~ Ruth Ozeki

About Interesting Just Me Novel Things Trying Write Writing

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When I'm writing a novel, which is what I like to write, I get up early, sit zazen, make a pot of green tea. I wear wrist cuffs to keep my wrists warm and minimize irritation from extended contact with the surface of my desk. I sit down and write.

~ Ruth Ozeki

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Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories.

~ Ruth Ozeki

Alone Mind Much Own So Much Time Solitary Spend Stories Telling Time Writing You Your

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