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
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
“Am I happy? All I can say is I guess so. That's pretty much the way it is with dreams.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It's all a question of imagination. Our responsibility begins with the power to imagine.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It's all a question of imagination. Our responsibility begins with the power to imagine. It's just like Yeats said: In dreams begin… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“She leaves behind a damp pillow, wet with her tears. You touch the warmth with your hand and watch the sky outside… — 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
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
“Far away a crow caws. The earth slowly keeps on turning. But beyond any of those details there are dreams. And everyone´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
Don't tell me anymore. You should have your dream, as the old woman told you to. I understand how you feel, but… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Like fish that live at the bottom of the ocean, most of her dreams weren’t able to float to the surface.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to slip through it. But even if… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“You tell me there is no fighting or hatred or desire in the Town. That is a beautiful dream, and I do… — 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
