"Fiction is an elemental force, which has the power to shape reality in its own image - or images, I should say - because reality, like light, exists not only as a single point or particle, but also as an array of possibilities."

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Source : "Ruth Ozeki beats Thomas Pynchon to top Kitschie award" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2014.

Ruth Ozeki

#Reality Quotes #Light Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“Although I have lived in London, I have never really considered London my home because it was always going to be a stopping-off point for me, and it has been too.”
“You've got to love libraries. You've got to love books. You've got to love poetry. You've got to love everything about literature. Then, you can pick the one thing you love most and write about it.”
“The United States is like the Titanic, and I'm here with the lifeboat trying to get people to leave the ship... I see a real financial crisis coming for the United States.”
“That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.”
“Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.”
“We're all cremated equal.”
“I always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down.”

Source : Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 1999.
“Congress should know how to levy taxes, and if it doesn't know how to collect them, then a man is a fool to pay the taxes.”

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