--- title: "7 Draws Quotes By Haruki Murakami" description: "7 Draws quotes by Haruki Murakami. Plus more from Haruki Murakami and more Draws sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b0/haruki-murakami-21_blood_this-is-no-honky-tonk-parade-1q84-is-the_1371124.jpg" --- > [This is no honky-tonk parade. 1Q84 is the real world, where a cut draws real blood, where pain is real pain and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/this-is-no-honky-tonk-parade-1q84-is-the-real-world-where-a-cut-draws/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b0/haruki-murakami-21_blood_this-is-no-honky-tonk-parade-1q84-is-the_1371124.jpg) > [I began to draw an invisible boundary between myself and other people. No matter who I was dealing with. I maintained a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/i-began-to-draw-an-invisible-boundary-between-myself-and-other-people/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/392/haruki-murakami-21_attitude_i-began-to-draw-an-invisible-boundary-be_1766380.jpg) > [We're both looking at the same moon, in the same world. We're connected to reality by the same line. All I have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/we-re-both-looking-at-the-same-moon-in-the-same-world-we-re-connected/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec2/haruki-murakami-21_connected_we-re-both-looking-at-the-same-moon-in-t_1842317.jpg) > [I didn't have much to say to anybody but kept to myself and my books. With my eyes closed, I would touch…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/i-didn-t-have-much-to-say-to-anybody-but-kept-to-myself-and-my-books/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a7b/haruki-murakami-21_book_i-didn-t-have-much-to-say-to-anybody-but_2137064.jpg) > [When I write a novel I put into play all the information inside me. It might be Japanese information or it might…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/when-i-write-a-novel-i-put-into-play-all-the-information-inside-me-it/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ea/haruki-murakami-21_books_when-i-write-a-novel-i-put-into-play-all_2442970.jpg) > [That's wrong," she declared. "Everyone must have one thing that they can excel at. It's just a matter of drawing it out,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/that-s-wrong-she-declared-everyone-must-have-one-thing-that-they-can/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/93a/haruki-murakami-21_crush_that-s-wrong-she-declared-everyone-must_2858607.jpg) > [So that's how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/so-that-s-how-we-live-our-lives-no-matter-how-deep-and-fatal-the-loss-3/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d17/haruki-murakami-21_behinds_so-that-s-how-we-live-our-lives-no-matte_3054475.jpg) ## Other authors on Draws ## More by Haruki Murakami > [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/i-always-feel-like-i-m-struggling-to-become-someone-else-like-i-m/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) > [If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/if-writing-novels-is-like-planting-a-forest-then-writing-short/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) > [“The sad truth is that what I could recall in five seconds all too soon needed ten, then thirty, thena full minute...”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/the-sad-truth-is-that-what-i-could-recall-in-five-seconds-all-too/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) > [“Intelligent teenage girls were often instinctively theatrical, purposely eccentric, mouthing highly suggestive words to confuse people.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/intelligent-teenage-girls-were-often-instinctively-theatrical/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/memory-is-like-fiction-or-else-it-s-fiction-that-s-like-memory-this/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) > [The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/the-most-dangerous-creature-here-would-have-to-be-me-so-maybe-i-m/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) > [If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/if-you-listen-to-the-radio-for-a-whole-hour-there-s-maybe-one-decent/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) > [“that one of our problems was our inability to recognize and accept our own deformities”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/that-one-of-our-problems-was-our-inability-to-recognize-and-accept/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) > [“When I look back at myself at age twenty, what I remember most is being alone and lonely. I had no girlfriend to warm…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/when-i-look-back-at-myself-at-age-twenty-what-i-remember-most-is/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) > [“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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/there-s-not-a-branch-of-publishing-or-broadcasting-that-doesn-t/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/one-by-one-i-ll-face-the-tasks-before-me-and-complete-them-as-best-i/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/eleven-o-clock-had-come-and-gone-i-had-to-find-a-way-to-bring-this/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) > [“Some people get a kick out of reading railway timetables and that's all they do all day. Some people make huge model boats out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/some-people-get-a-kick-out-of-reading-railway-timetables-and-that-s/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) > [“When the time comes, everybody’s got to end up where they belong. Only me, I didn’t have a place to call my own. It’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/when-the-time-comes-everybody-s-got-to-end-up-where-they-belong-only/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) > [“You let something out of the bag before yourself knew what it was all about”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/you-let-something-out-of-the-bag-before-yourself-knew-what-it-was-all/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/draws/haruki-murakami/#itemlist", "name": "7 Draws Quotes By Haruki Murakami", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "This is no honky-tonk parade. 1Q84 is the real world, where a cut draws real blood, where pain is real pain and fear is real fear. 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