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 Copy Share Image
The good thing about writing book is that you can dream while you are awake... — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to… — 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
What do we talk about? Just ordinary things. What happened today, or books we've read, or tomorrow's weather, you know. Don't tell… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a… — 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
“He was a far more voracious reader than me, but he made it a rule to never touch a book by any… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Somebody once said if it’s something a single book can explain, it’s not worth having explained.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“No creas que estoy enfadada contigo. Sólo estoy triste. Por que tú has sido muy amable conmigo, y, a cambio, no he… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“To be able to talk to your heart's content about a book you like with someone is one of the greatest joys… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I was enjoying myself writing, because I don't know what's going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You… — 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
The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before.… — 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
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
“Once I began a book, I couldn’t put it down. It was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in school, where… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When I was little, I had this science book. There was a section on 'What would happen to the world if there… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“[...] he made it a rule never to touch a book by any author who had not been dead at least 30… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The book didn't come to any conclusion, and nobody wants to read a book that doesn't have one. For me, though, having… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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 u only read the books that everyone's reading, you can think what everyone else is thinking.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I began to draw an invisible boundary between myself and other people. No matter who I was dealing with. I maintained a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It's true though: time moves in its own special way in the middle of the night," the bartender says, loudly striking a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Many people tell me that they don 't know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you miss the bus, miss the train, you’d be left behind. So everyone says, let’s get on the train, let’s get… — 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
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 Image
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“Intelligent teenage girls were often instinctively theatrical, purposely eccentric, mouthing highly suggestive words to confuse people.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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 Image
The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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 Image
“that one of our problems was our inability to recognize and accept our own deformities” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
![“[...] he made it a rule never to touch a book by any author who had not been dead at least 30 years. "That's the only kind of book I can trust", he said. "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 that has not had…” quote by Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/02b/haruki-murakami-21_book_he-made-it-a-rule-never-to-touch-a-book_1535746.jpg)
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