Top 70 Quotes & Sayings by Ruth Ozeki - Page 2

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.

Information is a lot like water; it's hard to hold on to, and hard to keep from leaking away.

When Im writing a novel, which is what I like to write, I get up early, sit zazen, make a pot of green tea. I wear wrist cuffs to keep my wrists warm and minimize irritation from extended contact with the surface of my desk. I sit down and write.

An unfinished book. left unattended, turns feral, and she would need all her focus, will and ruthless determination to tame it again.

No matter how much bullying they inflict on my body, as long as I have this hope, I can endure any pain.

Inspiration comes from everything from the entire world, and its hard to pinpoint one thing. I can trace one inspiration to the writing of 13th-century Zen master Dogen Zenji, who writes beautifully about time.

It was really a means-of-production problem. 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.

That's what it feels like when I write, like I have this beautiful world in my head, but when I try to remember it in order to write it down, I change it, and I can't ever get it back.

My mind is like a gyre and odd juxtapositions happen.

It takes a long time to write a book. I'm not going to spend that much time trying to deliver a message. The reason I do it is because I want to understand something myself. It's not a delivery device, it's an inquiry device. Didactic fiction to my mind never works. It backfires.