“‘I’m very interested in the way that psychiatric diagnosis happens and the very narrow bandwidth that we consider to be normal...normal is a social construct. I’m not a voice-hearer, but I have heard voices. As an artist I have relationships with fictional voices all the time, so I’m very grateful that our society has decided that novels are socially acceptable because if they weren’t, I would also be diagnosed.’”
July 9, 2021
The Bookseller
Ruth Ozeki | 'As an artist I have relationships with fictional voices all the time'