People with dark souls have nothing but dark dreams. People with really dark souls do nothing but dream. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“There are symbolic dreams-dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities-realities that symbolize a dream” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It is all a question of imagination. Our responsibility begins with the power to Imagine. In dreams begin responsibilities.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to doI dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in flight, searching the skies for dreams. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I don't dream. Come to think of it, i haven't had any dreams in a long time.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Far away a crow caws. The earth slowly keeps on turning. But beyond any of those details there are dreams. And everyone´s… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I'm still awake. I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do. To dream, to live in the world of dreams. But… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. It was like a vague dream,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock 'n' roll.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Don't tell me anymore. You should have your dream, as the old woman told you to. I understand how you feel, but… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It's just like Yeats said. In dreams begin responsibilities. Flip this around and you could say that where there's no power to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“People can generally be classified into two groups: the mediocre realists and the mediocre dreamers. You clearly belong to the latter. Your… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
As a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Symbolism and meaning are two separate things. I think she found the right words by bypassing procedures like meaning and logic. She… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I want to write stories that are different from the ones I've written so far, Junpei thought: I want to write about… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There are symbolic dreams-- dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities -- realities that symbolize a dream. Symbols are… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The good thing about writing books is that you can dream while you are awake. If it’s a real dream, you cannot… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Well, finally, once you become an orphan, you're an orphan till the day you die. I keep having the same dream. I'm… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Since the library has just opened for the day, there's no one else there and I have the elegant reading room all… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“A question. So what are people supposed to do if they want to avoid a collision (thud!) but still lie in the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The third dream was hard to put into words. It was a rambling, incoherent dream without any setting. All that was there… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I close my eyes and take a deep breath, and like a gentle cloud the wonder of it all settles over me.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The good thing about writing book is that you can dream while you are awake... — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
So many dreams, so many disappointments, so many promises. And in the end, they all just vanish. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Have your dream...What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand) — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“That is dreamreading. As the birds leave south or north in their season, the Dreamreader has dreams to read.” — 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
