“Colors shone with exceptional clarity in the rain. The ground was a deep black, the pine branches a brilliant green, the people… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There was just one moon. That familiar, yellow, solitary moon. The same moon that silently floated over fields of pampas grass, the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When I was little, I had this science book. There was a section on 'What would happen to the world if there… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Do you know what ‘Sputnik’ means in Russian? ‘Travelling companion’. I looked it up in a dictionary not long ago. Kind of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The real world is in a much darker and deeper place than this, and most of it is occupied by jellyfish and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I closed my eyes and listened carefully for the descendants of Sputnik, even now circling the earth, gravity their only tie to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Strange and mysterious things, though, aren't they - earthquakes? We take it for granted that the earth beneath our feet is solid… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
My very existence, my life in the world, seemed like a hallucination. A strong wind would make me think my body was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I sat on a somewhat higher sand dune and watched the eastern sky. Dawn in Mongolia was an amazing thing. In one… — 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
I could disappear from the face of the earth, and the world would go on moving without the slightest twinge. Things were… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Unable to sleep after the others had drowsed off, I crawled out of the tent and lay on the ground, looking at… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. The two processes complement… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Two-thirds of earth's surface is ocean, and all we can see with the naked eye is the surface. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Thanks to the long days of rain, the blades of grass glowed with a deep-green luster, and they gave off the smell… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I stare at this ceaseless, rushing crowd and imagine a time a hundred years from now. In a hundred years everybody here-me… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The moon had been observing the earth close-up longer than anyone. It must have witnessed all of the phenomena occurring - and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The silence grew deeper, so deep that if you listened carefully you might very well catch the sound of the earth revolving… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
All over the world people have developed their own ideas about what's right and wrong in life, but so long as you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The Earth, time, concepts, love, life, faith justice, evil - they're all fluid and in transition. They don't stay in one form… — 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
