“Dreams are things from the past. They aren't from the future. That wasn't you imprisoned there. You imprison your dreams. You understand?… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
So many dreams, so many disappointments, so many promises. And in the end, they all just vanish. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Dreams are the kind of things you can—when you need to—borrow and lend out,” — 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
The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock 'n' roll.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“That is dreamreading. As the birds leave south or north in their season, the Dreamreader has dreams to read.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The third dream was hard to put into words. It was a rambling, incoherent dream without any setting. All that was there… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do. To dream, to live in the world of dreams. But… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Dreaming is the day job of novelists, but sharing our dreams is a still more important task for us. We cannot be… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I think people who share my dreams can enjoy reading my novels. And that's a wonderful thing. I said that myths are… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in flight, searching the skies for dreams. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I'm still awake. I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to doI dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You're afraid of imagination and even more afraid of dreams. Afraid of the resposibility that begins in dreams. But you have to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Symbolism and meaning are two separate things. I think she found the right words by bypassing procedures like meaning and logic. She… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You're afraid of imagination and even more afraid of dreams. Afraid of the responsibility that begins in dreams. But you have to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Since the library has just opened for the day, there's no one else there and I have the elegant reading room all… — 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
