Ruth Ozeki
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And they're the kinds of books I lik... JOY FIELDING When you're a kid, you see your parents reading the newspaper and you're like, 'God, why... FRED DURST LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA JAMES ALTUCHER Conflicts of interest' arise when you're not - when you're sneaky about it, when you'... SEAN SPICER CHRISTINE QUINN TEJU COLE ADAM CAROLLA TONY KUSHNER Reagan was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is, 'We are above that now. We'... CHRIS MATTHEWS CARL HIAASEN MARK HADDON GLORIA ESTEFAN PAULA PELL When you're in your 20s, you're a little more carefree; you're single. You have a very d... MELISSA DE SOUSA TREVOR NOAH When you're taking a fence on a horse, you don't think much; your body does all the thinking... PATRICK O'BRIAN DWYANE WADE I'm always writing. A friend of mine once said, 'You avoid re-writing by writing.' Which... CAMERON CROWE JOHN MCENROE I've never believed it's a fiction writer's job to create an exact replica of the past, ... 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I live in a beautiful part of British Columbia, and I run through the rainforest. I do have to look ... RUTH OZEKI Any independent bookstore that has managed to survive is the best place to do a reading. RUTH OZEKI I would like to think of my 'ignorance' less as a personal failing and more as a massive cultural tr... RUTH OZEKI Fiction is an elemental force, which has the power to shape reality in its own image - or images, I ... RUTH OZEKI The only time they ever throw anything away is when it's really and truly broken, and then they make... RUTH OZEKI I did documentary film for a long time, and I spent a lot of time behind the camera, fervently wishi... RUTH OZEKI People have always heard voices. Sometimes they're called shamans, sometimes they're called ... RUTH OZEKI When I'm writing a novel, which is what I like to write, I get up early, sit zazen, make a pot o... RUTH OZEKI The relationship between reader and writer is reciprocal in a way. We co-create each other. We are c... RUTH OZEKI To study the self is to forget the self. Maybe if you sat enough zazen, your sense of being a solid,... RUTH OZEKI Information is a lot like water; it's hard to hold on to, and hard to keep from leaking away. RUTH OZEKI Am I crazy?" she asked. "I feel like I am sometimes."RUTH OZEKI When you beat a drum, you create NOW, when silence becomes a sound so enormous and alive it feels li... RUTH OZEKI On the far side stretched the open Pacific and beyond, but the crow could not fly high enough to see... RUTH OZEKI Inspiration comes from everything from the entire world, and it's hard to pinpoint one thing. I ... RUTH OZEKI Even though I was making documentaries, my films had fictional elements to them. I think I like blur... RUTH OZEKI For a writer, you definitely do not want to be in the mainstream. You want to be on the edge because... RUTH OZEKI Patience was part of his nature, and he accepted his lot as a short-lived mammal, scurrying in and o... RUTH OZEKI In your diary, you quoted old Jiko saying something about not-knowing, how not-knowing is the most i... RUTH OZEKI In my heart, I am American, and I believe I have a free will and can take charge of my own destiny. RUTH OZEKI It made me sad when I caught myself pretending that everybody out there in cyberspace cared about wh... RUTH OZEKI It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a ream of paper from ... RUTH OZEKI I think all characters are facets of the writer. In a way, they have to be if you're going to wr... RUTH OZEKI It makes me nuts, the idea that if you put a political struggle at the heart of your book, then it h... RUTH OZEKI I've always played that edge of fact and fiction. I used to be a filmmaker, and certainly in fil... RUTH OZEKI There's something about Vonnegut's deadpan irony that I really like. And I like Borges' ... RUTH OZEKI I think that all writing is in search of lost time. I'm starting to realise that very clearly. RUTH OZEKI My mind is like a gyre, and odd juxtapositions happen. RUTH OZEKI When I start writing these novels, I go into them with a spirit of inquiry rather than to substantia... RUTH OZEKI Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories. RUTH OZEKI Maybe all teenagers feel like they don't fit in. I never felt like a cool kid. I remember being ... RUTH OZEKI Ruth was a novelist, and novelists, Oliver asserted, should have cats and books. RUTH OZEKI RUTH REICHL The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new for... RUTH BERNHARD RUTH REICHL Why do we have to have violence, torture, brutality in crime dramas every time we turn on television... RUTH RENDELL Both my parents had strokes. My father had several, but the last one was fatal. It's a horribly ... RUTH RENDELL RUTH PORAT BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH RUTH REICHL When you label someone 'up and coming' or 'the new breakout,' there's this kind ... RUTH NEGGA You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be abl... RUTH SMELTZER RUTH ROSS I simply want to take a break and catch my breath. But I also think that, sometimes, the bravest thi... RUTH WILSON RUTH REICHL We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we fe... RUTH RENDELL BABE RUTH RUTH ROSS RUTH GRAHAM RUTH BEECHICK BABE RUTH BABE RUTH RUTH GORDON BABE RUTH RUTH ROSS RUTH HUBBARD RUTH MORGAN BABE RUTH RUTH ROSS RUTH BENEDICT RUTH GORDON RUTH STOUT ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must tak... RUTH BENEDICT RUTH BENEDICT RUTH BENEDICT RUTH BENEDICT RUTH BENEDICT RUTH BENEDICT RUTH GORDON RUTH HUBBARD RUTH HUBBARD RUTH BENEDICT When people lose their ties to the land they grow corrupt. Inevitably, they grow corrupt. RUTH ALMOG BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH RUTH STOUT RUTH BENEDICT BABE RUTH RUTH REICHL RUTH BENEDICT BABE RUTH RUTH GORDON RUTH PORAT A fox is a wolf who sends flowers. RUTH BROWN RUTH REICHL RUTH REICHL 'The Chimney Sweeper's Boy' began differently from any previous book I'd written. It... RUTH RENDELL RUTH REICHL The knives of jealousy are honed on details. RUTH RENDELL He who climbs a cliff may die on the cliff, so what? Always a risk-taker by nature, now I became one... RUTH PARK RUTH REICHL If you're chained to a computer all day, you're not using up much energy, even if you drag y... RUTH GLICK I came up with, 'I am a lost boy from Neverland, usually hanging out with Peter Pan' and rec... RUTH B I went down to my keyboard and was playing random chords, and the one line I kept repeating was, ... RUTH B RUTH REICHL To exist, the triangle demands three complementary elements: love, power and danger. Mixed incautiou... RUTH HARRIS RUTH STOUT RUTH REICHL RUTH REICHL Bette Davis is my hero. I'm obsessed with her. I base everything I do on her. RUTH NEGGA BABE RUTH BABE RUTH I thought the Barbie doll would always be successful. RUTH HANDLER Through their play Barbara imagined their lives as adults. They used the dolls to reflect the adult ... RUTH HANDLER BABE RUTH RUTH PORAT The difficult thing for me is going to a event and having to be dressed up and being judged for what... RUTH WILSON RUTH REICHL RUTH BENEDICT RUTH REICHL The original Dean Martin Comedy Hour handed me some hysterical sketches. I've got highlights on ... RUTH BUZZI In fact, if one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be cruelty, but where a lot of peo... RUTH HARRISON RUTH GORDON Cleaning isn't all that interesting to me. I'm disorganized. RUTH WILSON RUTH REICHL I don't make any notes, but I do know where to find things. Suppose I need to know where Wexford... RUTH RENDELL They were using the dolls to project their dreams of their own futures as adult women. RUTH HANDLER RUTH REICHL Of course, to publish something, you have to write it, polish it, then hire out the line editing, co... RUTH GLICK My nephews all look at me differently now. Before, they couldn't relate to me, and now I'm l... RUTH BUZZI In judging other people's work, particularly short stories, I have noticed how novice writers te... RUTH RENDELL The old detective story that's got a really complicated motive doesn't apply to mine. RUTH RENDELL I don't feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is my life - writing detective... RUTH RENDELL One of my desert island books, 'The Leopard' is not so much a novel as a eulogy for a way of... RUTH WARE I believe that for all of us, there was this one moment in our early life when we started being obse... RUTH REINHARDT Violence in film and television is an ongoing conversation, and I like eavesdropping on it, but I... RUTH NEGGA I felt like that was my calling. I just didn't know how I was going to get my voice out of Edmon... RUTH B RUTH BENEDICT RUTH GORDON BABE RUTH BABE RUTH RUTH GORDON RUTH GORDON RUTH HUBBARD BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH You wont hear anything from me that says I didn't kill David. I did kill him. RUTH ELLIS People tell me the most extraordinary things. I've noticed it for years. Perhaps they know I won... RUTH RENDELL Walden Pond? You mean like Thoreau? RUTH SAUNDERS RUTH REICHL Firstly, I think that now there are many young female conductors, but as it takes at least thirty ye... RUTH REINHARDT I went into a church and simply said, 'Goodbye.' It is the terrible unfairness of life. How ... RUTH RENDELL RUTH REICHL RUTH PORAT I get up just before six and come downstairs, put food out for the cats, and open the cat flap. Then... RUTH RENDELL Beth Garber did very well in the No. 2 spot. Jenny Christen, in the No. 6 spot and her first time on... RUTH PINKERTON RUTH REICHL She's another Tina Turner is what I see, RUTH BROWN Unfortunately, the young generation, who I believe have their own place in the sun like I had mine; ... RUTH BROWN Unfortunately, I'm a little concerned where the legends are coming from nowadays. RUTH BROWN And, of course, I was singing cheap. RUTH BROWN There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because o... RUTH BROWN RUTH HUBBARD In many ways, playing a real person is slightly easier because you have a road map. When you're ... RUTH NEGGA We, people, are so very, very complicated that no matter how well drawn a fictional character is, th... RUTH RENDELL People are still being put into geriatric wards when they don't need it. They need treatment, no... RUTH RENDELL RUTH REICHL I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is: a point of connection. There's n... RUTH NEGGA I don't know that we'll be able to sell, statewide, anything less than a five-buck limit. CHARLES RUTH My favourite book - 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford, which I have read about 20 times ... RUTH RENDELL Ford Maddox Ford's 'The Good Soldier' is my favourite novel. I first read it in the 1950... RUTH RENDELL Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done. RUTH ASAWA He's a cat's cat, he climbs trees and sits on people's roofs but now he's forced to be in the house ... RUTH CISERO To me... San Francisco is an ideal city, intellectually stimulating and naturally beautiful. The oce... RUTH BERNHARD We really lifted that ball and there was some great intercepts to see. RUTH AITKEN RUTH REICHL And I can promise you that we're not going to go to the Coastal Plain and come back with a three-buc... CHARLES RUTH The Stanford Mansion is certainly the jewel of Sacramento, ... and we're adding it to the crown jewe... RUTH COLEMAN BABE RUTH Even though this pegs to 150 percent of market, the premiums are still lower or benefits more expans... RUTH CASE RUTH GORDON I was like the queen of the South. RUTH BROWN The side of his face had gone numb so he went to a dentist, but was told he should see a doctor as w... RUTH LIGGETT I don't think the Barbara Vines are mysteries in any sense. The Barbara Vine is much more slowly... RUTH RENDELL If people want to invade your privacy, they want to invade your privacy. I find it chilling, and I f... RUTH NEGGA For me, the perfect romantic suspense hero has got to be tough on the outside but tender at his core... RUTH GLICK I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humili... RUTH RENDELL But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now. RUTH BROWN
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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart. 
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