“When I look back at myself at age twenty, what I remember most is being alone and lonely. I had no girlfriend… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I might have been afraid that if I really loved someone and needed her, one day she might suddenly disappear without a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Being all alone is like the feeling you get when you stand at the mouth of a large river on a rainy… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“From the photo albums, every single print of her had been peeled away. Shots of the both of us together had been… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Samsa certainly had no idea what lay ahead. He was in the dark about everything: the future, of course, but the present… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I watched the moon alone, unable to share his cold beauty with anyone.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Have you heard of the illness hysteria siberiana ? Try to imagine this: You're a farmer, living all alone on the Siberian… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I always feel like I'm struggling to become someone else. Like I'm trying to find a new place, grab hold of a new life,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“The sad truth is that what I could recall in five seconds all too soon needed ten, then thirty, thena full minute...” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“Intelligent teenage girls were often instinctively theatrical, purposely eccentric, mouthing highly suggestive words to confuse people.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. This really came home to me once I started writing fiction, that memory… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“that one of our problems was our inability to recognize and accept our own deformities” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“When I look back at myself at age twenty, what I remember most is being alone and lonely. I had no girlfriend to warm… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“There's not a branch of publishing or broadcasting that doesn't depend in some way on advertising. It'd be like an aquarium without water. Why,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“One by one, I'll face the tasks before me and complete them as best I can. Focusing on each stride forward, but at the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“Eleven o'clock had come and gone. I had to find a way to bring this conversation to a successful conclusion and get out of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“Some people get a kick out of reading railway timetables and that's all they do all day. Some people make huge model boats out… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“When the time comes, everybody’s got to end up where they belong. Only me, I didn’t have a place to call my own. It’s… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“You let something out of the bag before yourself knew what it was all about” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
