“Liest man, was alle anderen auch lesen, kann man auch nur das denken, was alle anderen denken.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I think most readers would say the same. Most would choose Midori. And the protagonist, of course, chooses her in the end.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way. — 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
I have read all my novels that were translated into English. Reading my novels is enjoyable because I forget almost all the… — 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
“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
“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
“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 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
“She and I would trade books, talk endlessly, drink cheap whiskey, engage in unremarkable sex. You know, the stuff of everyday.” — 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
“Number one of the list now was a diet book entitled Eat as much as You Want of the Food You Love… — 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
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. That’s the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out from between their pages –… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“And how was my time? Truth be told, not so great. At least, not as good as I’d been secretly hoping for.… — 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
“With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make… — 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
“When you introduce things that most readers have never seen before into a piece of fiction, you have to describe them with… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It's little strange, perhaps, to make this claim at such a late date, but Gatsby really is an outstanding novel. I never… — 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
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