Book Quotes by Haruki Murakami

I don't know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.

— Haruki Murakami

“All my books are weird love stories. I love weird love stories.”

— Haruki Murakami

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

— Haruki Murakami

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

— Haruki Murakami

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

— Haruki Murakami

I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.

— Haruki Murakami

Nights without work I spend with whisky and books.

— Haruki Murakami

The good thing about writing book is that you can dream while you are awake...

— Haruki Murakami

“Somebody once said if it’s something a single book can explain, it’s not worth having explained.”

— Haruki Murakami

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

It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn…

— Haruki Murakami

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

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

— Haruki Murakami

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

Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you

— Haruki Murakami

The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but I…

— Haruki Murakami

Like a Chinese box, the world of the novel contained smaller worlds, and inside those were yet smaller worlds. Together, these worlds…

— Haruki Murakami

“He was a far more voracious reader than me, but he made it a rule to never touch a book by any…

— Haruki Murakami

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

“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

But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very…

— Haruki Murakami

I began to draw an invisible boundary between myself and other people. No matter who I was dealing with. I maintained a…

— Haruki Murakami

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

Many people tell me that they don 't know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story…

— Haruki Murakami

My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life… Not that I knew what I…

— 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

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

I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of…

— Haruki Murakami

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

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

I myself, as I'm writing, don't know who did it. The readers and I are on the same ground. When I start…

— 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

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

Does G get angry because it follows F in the alphabet? Does page 68 in a book start a revolution because it follows 67?

— Haruki Murakami

“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

The curious thing about individuals is that their singularity always goes beyond any category or generalization in the book.

— Haruki Murakami

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

“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

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

— Haruki Murakami

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