227 Quotes by Ruth Ozeki

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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.

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    Life is fleeting. Don't waste a single moment of your precious life. Wake up now! And now! And now!

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    When I start writing 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.

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    Sometimes when she told stories about the past her eyes would get teary from all the memories she had, but they weren't tears. She wasn't crying. They were just the memories, leaking out.

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    The important thing was that we were being polite and not saying all the things that were making us unhappy, which was the only way we knew how to love each other.

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    She smiled. “Life is full of stories. Or maybe life is only stories. Good night, my dear Nao.

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    What if I travel so far away in my dreams that I can't get back in time to wake up?

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    For the time being Words scatter Are they fallen leaves?

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    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 in order to write it down, I change it, and I can't ever get it back.

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