227 Quotes by Ruth Ozeki

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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