“[Meditation] trains the mind to be more focused. This is very useful to writers. It takes a lot of stamina to keep returning to the page over and over again. It requires steadiness as well.”
October 12, 2017
Chicago Tribune: Lake Forester
Ruth Ozeki speaks on writing at Lake Forest College
“It’s precisely because we are all so intimately interconnected that we can create collective change by changing ourselves. Marie talks about how, by tidying your own room, you will set off a chain reaction, and others in your house will begin to tidy, too. This is true for other qualities, like kindness and compassion and environmental awareness. We clean up our own act first. We do our best to inspire—quietly, patiently, and by example—knowing that we will keep trying no matter what.”
August 8, 2017
KonMari Newsletter
Embracing the Time Being: An Interview with Best-Selling Author Ruth Ozeki
“The privacy that reading fiction gave me, that sense of solitude [while] also being in company [of] another mind was...very important to me, and very precious. From a very early age, I wanted to do that. I wanted to make that same kind of magic happen.”
May 5, 2017
The Washington Post, Alexandra Laughlin
How Ruth Ozeki Renamed Herself
Other: Mixed Race in America Podcast
“Identity was a relative, not [an] absolute”
February 24, 2017
Buddhistdoor Global
The Fiction of the Self: Ruth Ozeki
Caitlin Dwyer
“We’re blessed with these imaginations and empathy is not something passive. It’s active. It’s something that we can do both as writers and as readers. ”
December 6, 2016
Literary Hub
Writing the Body: Trauma, Illness, Sexuality and Beyond
Red Ink Reading Series with Ruth Ozeki, Eileen Myles, Porochista Khakpour, Anna March, and Alexandra Kleeman, hosted by Michele Filgate