It's just like Yeats said. In dreams begin responsibilities. Flip this around and you could say that where there's no power to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It is all a question of imagination. Our responsibility begins with the power to Imagine. In dreams begin responsibilities.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. It was like a vague dream,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
People with dark souls have nothing but dark dreams. People with really dark souls do nothing but dream. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The world’s crawling with stupid, innocent girls, and I’m just one of them, self-consciously chasing after dreams that’ll never come true. I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Have your dream...What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand) — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
They put up with such strenuous training, and where did their thoughts, their hopes and dreams, disappear to? When people pass away,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I get up early in the morning, 4 o'clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I want to write stories that are different from the ones I've written so far, Junpei thought: I want to write about… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Well, finally, once you become an orphan, you're an orphan till the day you die. I keep having the same dream. I'm… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I don't dream. Come to think of it, i haven't had any dreams in a long time.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In dreams you don't need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don't exist. So in dreams there are… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I close my eyes and take a deep breath, and like a gentle cloud the wonder of it all settles over me.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are symbolic dreams-- dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities -- realities that symbolize a dream. Symbols are… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
As a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I have these realistic dreams and snap wide awake in the middle of the night. And for a while I can't work… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The world’s crawling with stupid, innocent girls, and I’m just one of them, self-consciously chasing after dreams that will never come true.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Unsure how to answer, I took another grape. Time was no problem for me, but I wasn't eager to hear the long… — 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
