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Ruth Ozeki Quotes

Canadian - Novelist | March 12, 1956 -

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.

God Prayer Words Writing World You

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

Alone Time Mind Writing You Own

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

Me Writing Interesting Trying Write

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.

Future Beautiful Time I Am Me Voice

Any independent bookstore that has managed to survive is the best place to do a reading.

Best Survive Reading Place Bookstore

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

Puzzle Irony Structure Something

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.

Great Reading Strong Stronger Canada

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.

Edge More Always Line Fiction Film

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.

Time Control Reality Camera You

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.

Control End Driving Problem You Say

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.

Heart Struggle Me Book Push You

I think all characters are facets of the writer. In a way, they have to be if you're going to write them convincingly.

Think You Way Write Going Writer

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