Ruth Ozeki
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ZACK SNYDER I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future. JACK KILMER BRITNEY SPEARS GEORGE ORWELL I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of ... J. A. JANCE I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older. FAITH EVANS It slightly depends on your perspective, sort of how you look at these things, but when I sit down t... ALEX GARLAND When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I t... ALBERTO MORAVIA I write. This is what I do. My job is to sit down with my vocabulary, select words, and decide what ... ALAN ZWEIBEL PAUL THEROUX AARON NEVILLE When I'm writing a novel, one of the things I do is get big poster boards. They're actually ... ALEXI ZENTNER ASHWIN SANGHI BARBARA KINGSOLVER TOM ROBBINS DAVID COOK JODI PICOULT I find it easier to write in the winter in Melbourne. When the weather is good you want to go out fo... ADRIAN MCKINTY CHANG-RAE LEE CARLOS FUENTES Aye, well, I've got my garden. LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing. LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds, LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument. LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ... LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w... LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t... LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start. LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec... LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said. LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said. LIKE I Married to the Mob. LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge. LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i... LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick? LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said. LIKE I CLAIRE TOMALIN Inevitably I draw on my own relationships when I write, so if I'm writing about a fight between ... EMILY GIFFIN ERIN MORGENSTERN KATHY GRIFFIN ORHAN PAMUK GAIL DEVERS SCOTT WEILAND ROXANE GAY When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I&#... DANI SHAPIRO I'm trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feel... COREY HAIM I don't sit down and say I'm going to write a song about this or that. They are never mapped... JOHN DARNIELLE When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frighte... BARRY LOPEZ KATE MIDDLETON KATE MIDDLETON If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs,... ZAKK WYLDE ISABEL ALLENDE What it takes is to actually write: not to think about it, not to imagine it, not to talk about it, ... LUANNE RICE My only qualifications to be an actor were that I'm daring, and I'm a quick learner. I'v... COLMAN DOMINGO PETE TOWNSHEND I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes. OTIS RUSH PETER HELLER ELIZABETH WURTZEL VICTORIA AVEYARD EDDIE VAN HALEN CAROL BURNETT I write all the time. I always have. I can pick up my horn to warm up, and an idea will pop into my ... WADADA LEO SMITH NICHOLAS KRISTOF DAN AYKROYD VERONICA ROTH When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in ... ALBERTO MORAVIA ROBERT CECIL DAY-LEWIS CECIL DAY-LEWIS DAVE GORMAN I kind of just write what I like to write. I'm thankful that readers of different ages seem to c... GENE LUEN YANG First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If... C. DAY LEWIS KATHERINE BOO TOM PETTY When I sit down to write a song, there is no filter. I'm not trying to write for anyone or anyth... JENNY LEWIS With writing, I need a lot of time to sit around and do nothing. But now that I have kids, I just do... SOFIA COPPOLA Oh my God, I used to get heartburn and all sorts of indigestion and stuff because I didn't feel ... KRISTIN CAST MARTINA MCBRIDE QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II
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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 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 There's something about the idea of writing, and thinking about writing as a form of prayer - th... 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
When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle bet... 
My writing process often begins with a question. I write down ideas and let them stew for about a ye... 
When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get i... 
Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself ... 
I don't really have time to sit down and write. But when I think of a melody, I call up my answering... 
When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, 'I am going to produce a work of art.' I wr... 
Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is m... 
I might see something on TV and get inspired to write about it. I can't sit down and plan to wri... 
At thirty-five, having spent over twenty years running varied businesses for my family, I decided to... 
When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist. 
When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle. 
I actually got to write with one of my musical heroes, a guy named Raine Maida from Our Lady Peace. ... 
Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the mu... 
I write on a computer. On breaks, I'll make myself green tea. I don't want something too caf... 
I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down. 
Writers don't make good spouses. When I am writing, I'm not a good wife. I shut myself away,... 
I paint very messy. I throw paint around. So when I let myself do the same sort of thing with my wri... 
I hate it, it is tedious... when I write for my act, it is very improvisational, I write bullet poin... 
When I write, I feel that I'm writing with my intellect. When I paint, I think it's some oth... 
When I write a goal down - and I truly write them down - it becomes a part of me. That's a contr... 
When people ask me if I have a hobby, a lot of times my answer is that I like to surf in warm water.... 
Everyone else thinks I'm a nonfiction writer. I think it's because my nonfiction is easier t... 
I don't know if I have a favorite color. 
It's very special having a new little girl. 
My desk is like a 'U,' so I have my computer and lots of dictionaries because I write in Spa... 
A lot of writing I do on tour. I do a lot on airplanes. At home, I write a lot, obviously. When I wr... 
There's always been in my life that tension between living and writing. For me, because I'm ... 
I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassette... 
I write, having seen what's happening already in my head. I see it as a movie, and I'm just ... 
Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let&... 
What I like to write about is stuff I know. I don't think I could write a novel. I don't thi... 
I didn't just want to sit and suck my thumb and write. 
When I'm not acting, I'm writing, building an inventory of scripts. Even if they sit on the ... 
I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look dow... 
First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If... 
First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If... 
I don't know about you, but the first thing I do when I'm supposed to write something, ... is to do ... 
When I'm engaged in a story my health is not a big deal, but when I'm not doing anything, if... 
I tend to write on an acoustic guitar or the piano. I have kind of a rule: if I can't sit down a... 
At the beginning of every week, I like to sit down and figure out what I'm going to make. I prob... 
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. 
Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and... 
My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ... 
I'm not a big turkey fan, but my husband loves it. Thanksgiving is his favorite meal. 
My idea of management is that what your job is as the boss is to find really good people and empower... 
If the door is nailed shut, and you're 'Leaning In,' you're just going to get bruise... 
How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt? 
Paris ain't much of a town. 
Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that&#... 
All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only upon the full use of our creative imaginatio... 
I love to make pies - pot pies, quiches, savory tarts, fruit pies. I use an old-fashioned pastry ble... 
Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart. 
A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn. 
To be somebody you must last. 
Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides. 
Pregnant women! They had that weird frisson, an aura of magic that combined awkwardly with an earthy... 
In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day... 
To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. Get the knack of getting people t... 
Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their bre... 
Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must tak... 
To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the... 
The mythology of science asserts that with many different scientists all asking their own questions ... 
The most valuable thing you can have as a leader is clear data. 
I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden. 
It's been invigorating being back on the West Coast, being at Alphabet, because there is so much... 
Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of ... 