One foot in front of the other. Repeat as often as necessary to finish. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I used to run a full marathon in three hours and 25 or 26 minutes. Not any more. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Most of what I know about writing I've learned through running every day. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
So the fact that I’m me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I just run. I run in a void. Or maybe I should put it the other way: I run in order to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If I used being busy as an excuse not to run, I'd never run again. I have only a few reasons to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“There are three reasons I failed. Not enough training. Not enough training. And not enough training.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“On the day of the race, as I run those very streets, will I be able to fully enjoy this autumn in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
By then running had entered the realm of the metaphysical. First there came the action of running, and accompanying it there was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The thoughts that occur to me while I’m running are like clouds in the sky. Clouds of all different sizes. They come… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Running taught me to have faith in my skills as a writer. I learned how much I can demand of myself, when… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I have always liked running, so it wasn't particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you need is a pair of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“As I run I tell myself to think of a river. And clouds. But essentially I'm thinking of not a thing. All… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
At any rate, that’s how I started running. Thirty three—that’s how old I was then. Still young enough, though no longer a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough." "Waiting for perfect love?" "No, even I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It might be a little silly for someone getting to be my age to put this into words, but I just want… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Sometimes I find it too hot to run, and sometimes too cold. Or too cloudy. But I still go running. I know… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'm in no position to hand down any advice," he said, "but there's a rule I follow when I don't know what… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I never cared all that much whether I beat others or lost to them. This sentiment remained pretty much unchanged after I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Even if there were two of me, I still couldn't do all that has to be done. No matter what, though, I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“One by one, I'll face the tasks before me and complete them as best I can. Focusing on each stride forward, but… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I've been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When I'm running I don't have to talk to anybody and don't have to listen to anybody. This is a part of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The rain that fell on the city runs down the dark gutters and empties into the sea without even soaking the ground — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I don't know, there's something about you. Say there's an hourglass: the sand's about to run out. Someone like you can always… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Writing is fun - at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my… — 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
