Writer Quotes by Haruki Murakami

I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge.

— Haruki Murakami

It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life.

— Haruki Murakami

It's just like sex; when [a book is] finished, it's finished.

— Haruki Murakami

I like to read books. I like to listen to music.

— Haruki Murakami

I'm an average person. Is just that I like reading.

— Haruki Murakami

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

— Haruki Murakami

I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.

— Haruki Murakami

“Any friend of Gatsby is a friend of mine.”

— Haruki Murakami

“Urging others to read F. Scott Fitzgerald, if not a reactionary act, was not something one could do in 1968.”

— Haruki Murakami

Perhaps I'm just too painstaking a type of person, but I can't grasp much of anything without putting down my thoughts in…

— Haruki Murakami

You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself…

— Haruki Murakami

Good style happens in one of two ways: the writer either has an inborn talent or is willing to work herself to…

— Haruki Murakami

“Nobody ever recommended or even desired that I be a novelist - in fact, some tried to stop me. I had the…

— Haruki Murakami

Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I…

— Haruki Murakami

“It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.”

— Haruki Murakami

I hate requests. They make me feel unhappy. It's like when I take a book out of the library. As soon as…

— Haruki Murakami

“Writing novels is much the same. You gather up bones and make your gate, but no matter how wonderful the gate might…

— Haruki Murakami

Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake,…

— Haruki Murakami

I didn't have much to say to anybody but kept to myself and my books. With my eyes closed, I would touch…

— Haruki Murakami

It's physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be…

— Haruki Murakami

I'm not intelligent. I'm not arrogant. I'm just like the people who read my books. I used to have a jazz club,…

— Haruki Murakami

Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in…

— Haruki Murakami

I have no idea! I have been writing for 35 years and from the beginning up to now the situation's almost the…

— Haruki Murakami

“It's not that I don't believe in contemporary literature," he added, "but I don't want to waste valuable time reading any book…

— Haruki Murakami

It is however, difficult to make your narratives relative by yourself. A novelists' work is to provide models to make your narratives…

— Haruki Murakami

"Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg."…

— Haruki Murakami

“True, there are those in our league who take even less time. But they don't do any research. They do a handful…

— Haruki Murakami

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

Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in school, where…

— Haruki Murakami

A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me awake…

— Haruki Murakami

“Writing, to me, is the meaning of life. My life became something special because of writing. My desk is for me what…

— Haruki Murakami

“The bar was meant to look like a place where Hemingway might have hung out in the Bahamas. A stuffed swordfish hung…

— Haruki Murakami

“Sometimes I run fast when I feel like it, but if I increase the pace I shorten the amount of time I…

— Haruki Murakami

“Please do, however, allow me to deliver one very personal message. It is something that I always keep in mind while I…

— Haruki Murakami

“One more nice thing about short stories is that you can create a story out of the smallest details -an idea that…

— Haruki Murakami

A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.

— Haruki Murakami

I'm a writer, not a professional runner. It's fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.

— Haruki Murakami

“They knew the difference between thoroughness and overkill. It was like Jay Gatsby's library: the books were real, but the pages were…

— Haruki Murakami

“Writing things was important, wasn’t it?” Nakata asked. “Yes, it was. The process of writing was important. Even though the finished product…

— Haruki Murakami

“If writers only wrote about things everybody knew, what the hell would be the point of writing?”

— Haruki Murakami