My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“If writers only wrote about things everybody knew, what the hell would be the point of writing?” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose). — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It's difficult to teach how to write novels, but teaching swimming is just as hard.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves. — 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
“I find writing novels a challenge, writing stories a joy. If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“What's crucial is whether your writing attains the standards you've set for yourself. (...) Basically a writer has a quiet, inner motivation,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at a desk for… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Writing novels is much the same. You gather up bones and make your gate, but no matter how wonderful the gate might… — 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
If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course, you have to be strong mentally,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“If you're looking for fine art or literature, you might want to read some stuff written by the Greeks. Because to create… — 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
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
Kafka is one of my very favorite writers. Kafka's fictional world is already so complete that trying to follow in his steps… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Even when I ran my bar I followed the same policy. A lot of customers came to the bar. If one in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I believe that I have not been fair to you and that, as a result, I must have led you around in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I don't think most people would like my personality. There might be a few--very few, I would imagine--who are impressed by it,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn't have to write for my living. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Most people probably didn't think I'd make it as a professional writer. But I couldn't follow their advice.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When I write a novel I put into play all the information inside me. It might be Japanese information or it might… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You could be anybody when you're writing. That's the reason that I'm writing: to be anybody. You can put your feet in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Age certainly hadn't conferred any smarts on me. Character maybe, but mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russian… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
To be able to talk to your heart’s content about a book you like with someone who feels the same way about… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“To be a Russian writer at the end of the nineteenth century must have meant bearing an inescapably bitter fate. The more… — 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
