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Ruth Ozeki
Ruth Ozeki
Canadian Novelist
Born: Mar 12, 1956
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Related authors: Claire Cameron David Bergen Joy Fielding Margaret Atwood Mordecai Richler Rachel Cusk Robertson Davies
When I'm writing a novel, I'm usually just trying to write about things that are interesting to me. Ruth Ozeki
Me Writing About Write Trying Just Interesting Novel Things
The relationship between reader and writer is reciprocal in a way. We co-create each other. We are constantly emerging out of the relationship we have with others. Ruth Ozeki
Relationship Other Others Reciprocal Way Out Constantly Emerging Writer Between Reader Each
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. Ruth Ozeki
You Edge Definitely See Vantage Vantage Point Point Writer Mainstream Because Where Want
Fiction is an elemental force, which has the power to shape reality in its own image - or images, I should say - because reality, like light, exists not only as a single point or particle, but also as an array of possibilities. Ruth Ozeki
Reality Light Power Single Own Say Possibilities Only Point Shape Particle Like Also Force Because Array Exists Fiction Which Should Elemental Image Images
Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories. Ruth Ozeki
Alone Time You Writing Mind Own Spend Solitary Telling So Much Time Stories Much Your
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. 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
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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. Ruth Ozeki
Edge Easily Cross More Fact Readily Always Line Than Fiction Used Certainly Novelists Film Played Filmmaker Filmmakers
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. 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. Ruth Ozeki
Good You Writing Beginning Inquiry Characters Spirit Rather Write Had Go Than In The Beginning Them Prejudices Novels Start

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