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Ruth Ozeki
Canadian
March 12, 1956
Novelist
Any independent bookstore that has managed to survive is the best place to do a reading.
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Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories.
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I think that all writing is in search of lost time. I'm starting to realise that very clearly.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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