Ruth Ozeki Quote

I don't know why I keep asking you these questions. It's not like I expect you to answer, and even if you did answer, how would I know? But maybe that doesn't matter. Maybe when I ask you a question like You doing okay? you should just tell me, even if I can't hear you, and then I'll just sit here and imagine what you might say.You might say, sure thing, Nao. I'm okay. I'm doing just fine.Okay, awesome I would say to you, and then we would smile at each other across time like we were friends, because we are friends by now, aren't we?

Ruth Ozeki

I don't know why I keep asking you these questions. It's not like I expect you to answer, and even if you did answer, how would I know? But maybe that doesn't matter. Maybe when I ask you a question like You doing okay? you should just tell me, even if I can't hear you, and then I'll just sit here and imagine what you might say.You might say, sure thing, Nao. I'm okay. I'm doing just fine.Okay, awesome I would say to you, and then we would smile at each other across time like we were friends, because we are friends by now, aren't we?

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About Ruth Ozeki

Ruth Ozeki (born March 12, 1956) is an American-Canadian author, filmmaker and Zen Buddhist priest. Her books and films, including the novels My Year of Meats (1998), All Over Creation (2003), A Tale for the Time Being (2013), and The Book of Form and Emptiness (2021) seek to integrate personal narrative and social issues, and deal with themes relating to science, technology, environmental politics, race, religion, war and global popular culture. Her novels have been translated into more than thirty languages. She teaches creative writing at Smith College, where she is the Grace Jarcho Ross 1933 Professor of Humanities in the Department of English Language and Literature.