I used to think the years would go by in order, that you get older one year at a time. But it's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I think I'll stay alive here a bit longer, and see with my own eyes what's going to happen. I can still… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I’ve never once thought about how I was going to die,” she said. “I can’t think about it. I don’t even know… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I think of rivers, of tides. Forests and water gushing out. Rain and lightning. Rocks and shadows. All of these are in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you think about it, an unfair society is a society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If I'm going to merely ramble, maybe I should just snuggle under the warm covers, think of Miu, and play with myself. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if I could tell the difference—between just staring into space and thinking. We're usually thinking all the time, aren't… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
All you have to do is wait,” I explained. “Sit tight and wait for the right moment. Not try to change anything… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Perhaps most people in the world aren’t trying to be free, Kafka. They just think they are. It’s all an illusion. If… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You know, they've got these chocolate assortments, and you like some but you don't like others? And you eat all the ones… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What I saw wasn't a ghost. It was simply--myself. I can never forget how terrified I was that night, and whenever I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I often recall these words when I am writing, and I think to myself, “It’s true. There aren’t any new words. Our… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
That's good. I was worried. Of course, I do have a few things wrong with me, but those are strictly problems I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Where the road sloped upward beyond the trees, I sat and looked toward the building where Naoko lived. It was easy to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Listen - God only exists in people's minds. Especially in Japan, God's always been kind of a flexible concept. Look at what… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Although I didn't think so at the time, things were a lot simpler in 1969. All you had to do to express… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
So I'm not crazy after all! I thought it looked good myself once I cut it all off. Not one guy likes… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through, is now like something from the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I think memory is the most important asset of human beings. It's a kind of fuel; it burns and it warms you.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Lying there, I close my eyes for a time, then open them. I silently breathe in, then out. A thought begins to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Let me just tell you this, Watanabe," said Midori, pressing her cheek against my neck. "I'm a real, live girl, with real,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Possibilities are like cancer. The more I think about them, the more they multiply, and there's no way to stop them. I'm… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I think of myself as more the non-turn-on type. so when I do get turned on, I don’t trust it, I have… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don't… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you think God’s there, He is. If you don’t, He isn’t. And if that’s what God’s like, I wouldn’t worry about… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Narratives have the same power, I think. Some readers of my novels ask me, "Why do you understand me?". That's a huge… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You've already decided what you're going to do, and all that's left is to set the wheels in motion. I mean, it's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In Japan they prefer the realistic style. They like answers and conclusions, but my stories have none. I want to leave them… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In terms of evolutionary history, it was only yesterday that men learned to walk around on two legs and get in trouble… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When you're young, you think you can handle anything. By the time you find out otherwise, it's already too late. You got… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I generally concentrate on work for three or four hours every morning. I sit at my desk and focus totally on what… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks I'm this delicate little girl. But you can't tell a book by it's cover.' To which she added a momentary… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It feels good to think about you when I'm warm in bed. I feel as if you're curled up there beside me,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A regular wind-up toy world this is, I think. Once a day the wind-up bird has to come and wind the springs… — 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
