"As a writer you wait around for inspiration; this book is about what happens when a character taps a writer on the shoulder and calls her into being; it's about the character creating a novelist."
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On her book A Tale for the Time Being in “Ruth Ozeki: 'This book is about the character creating a novelist'” in The Guardian (2013 Mar 7)
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