Ruth Ozeki

If you've ever tried to keep a diary, then you'll know that the problem of trying to write about the past really starts in the present: No matter how fast you write, you're always stuck in the

— Ruth Ozeki

Live. For Now. For the time being.

— Ruth Ozeki

In essence, everything in the entire universe is ultimately linked with each other as moments in time, continuous and separate.

— Ruth Ozeki

Time interacts with attention in funny ways.

— Ruth Ozeki

All through my childhood, I wanted to be a novelist. I stopped writing at various points because I would get frustrated because there were things I didn’t know how to do. I didn’t know how to move a story through time. Pacing. My character would enter a room and need to get across the room to the action, and I would walk her ploddingly across the room. I didn’t know how to move the plot along quickly and efficiently through time…

— Ruth Ozeki

As a writer you wait around for inspiration; this book is about what happens when a character taps a writer on the shoulder and calls her into being; it's about the character creating a novelist.

— Ruth Ozeki