Latest Ruth Ozeki Quotes from Interviews

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• When I start writing 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

  Writing, Character, Prejudice

• By the time we, consumers, are aware of processes like genetic engineering, they're already being done. It's sort of like the war in Iraq: By the time we know about it, it's almost a fait accompli. And that's certainly true with science.

  Ruth Ozeki

  War, Engineering, Iraq

• I think that if we don't learn to inhabit other people's perspectives, then we're never going to understand why people do what they do.

  Ruth Ozeki

  Thinking, People, Perspective

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• 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.

  Ruth Ozeki

  Writing, Mean, Cost

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• Even though I was making documentaries, my films had fictional elements to them. I think I like blurring those distinctions because so much of what we see on television purports to be the truth, but it's often largely imaginary - or wishful thinking, or any number of less honorable things.

  Ruth Ozeki

  Thinking, Numbers, Elements

  Source: www.motherjones.com