“Eleven o'clock had come and gone. I had to find a way to bring this conversation to a successful conclusion and get… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It is cognition that is the fantasy.... Everything I tell you now is mere words. Arrange them and rearrange them as I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The absence of conversation didn’t bother Kafuku. He wasn’t good at small talk. While he didn’t dislike talking to people he knew… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It was as if my whole life revolved around trying to judge the appropriate point in a conversation to say goodbye” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“We used to spend hours talking. We never got tired of talking, never raun out of topics - novels, the world, scenery,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
So for all that we might speak words in each other's vicinity, this could never develop into anything that could be called… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Listen - God only exists in people's minds. Especially in Japan, God's always been kind of a flexible concept. Look at what… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Like boarding a train running parallel. That's what disappearing is.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“...no matter how advanced the system, no matter how precise, unless we have the will to communicate, there's no connection. And even… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I listen carefully. That’s when I hear someone softly, almost imperceptibly, weeping. A sobbing from somewhere in the darkness. Someone is crying… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Expression and communication are essential; without these, civilization ends.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Not prejudging things, listening to what's going on, keeping your ears, heart, and mind open.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“If you listen carefully, you can hear these things. If you look carefully, you'll see what you're after” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“In that sense, this is not a standard book of interviews. Nor is it what you might call a book of 'celebrity… — 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
