I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own…

I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

— Haruki Murakami

I am an admirer of haiku, and I'm a great admirer of Japanese literature in general.

— Richard Flanagan

I have never followed what people say it is 'fashionable'. I think that a woman must wear what fits her. That is why I…

— Carmen Miranda

I feel like with '2.5,' I created another style that nobody else is coming with.

— Lil Durk

“When you start searching for ‘pure elements’ in literature you will find that literature has been created by the following classes of persons: Inventors.…

— Ezra Pound

“[Donald] Keene observed [in a book entitled The Pleasures of Japanese Literature, 1988] that the Japanese sense of beauty has long sharply differed from…

— Alain de Botton

'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great poet Basho…

— Richard Flanagan

Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.

— Italo Calvino

Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or…

— F. Sionil Jose

“From that time forward it has been hard for me not to think of literature as created primarily to give writers the drinks they…

— Caroline Rody

I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.

— Utada Hikaru

“Apocalyptic literature was created to speak in a powerful way and with a dramatic seriousness that would match the sense of hopelessness and terror…

— William J. Abraham

“From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was to find…

— Haruki Murakami

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

— Haruki Murakami

“I was living for one thing only, and that was to confirm my own lack of feeling.”

— Haruki Murakami