"…But now that my son has grown, I feel like I was at my happiest when I was writing while raising my child…Now that I can write as much as I want 24 hours a day, it’s not as if I produce any greater work now than I did in the past."
— Yōko Ogawa

January 1, 1970

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Short story writers from Japan20th-century Japanese novelists
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On how she once balanced motherhood and writing in “Meet the Japanese writer inspired by the wisdom of Anne Frank” in Independent (22 Aug 2019)