In most cases learning something essential in life requires physical pain. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You make do with what you have. As you age you learn even to be happy with what you have. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It's difficult to teach how to write novels, but teaching swimming is just as hard.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“This was one of the problems with math department graduates. When it came to areas they weren't interested in, their memory was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The facts and techniques or whatever they teach you in class isn't going to be very useful in the real world, that's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Grandfather always said school’s a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The facts and techniques or whatever they teach you in class isn't going to be veryuseful in the real world, that's for… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I'm just ordinary guy, ordinary family, ordinary education, ordinary face, ordinary exam results, ordinary thought in my head” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life… Not that I knew what I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
That's wrong," she declared. "Everyone must have one thing that they can excel at. It's just a matter of drawing it out,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“From elementary school up to college I was never interested in things I was forced to study. I told myself it was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Of course there are teachers who can teach a subject, in a set order, using predetermined phrases, but there aren't many who… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Everyone must have one thing that they can excel at. It's just a matter of drawing it out, isn't it? But school… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Most of these student types are total frauds. They’re scared to death somebody’s gonna find out they don’t know something. They all… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Every day I go to my study and sit at my desk and put the computer on. At that moment, I have… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Most of these university types are total phonies. They’re scared to death somebody’s gonna find they don’t know something. They all read… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I'm certified as an instructor and I do teach courses at a cram school, but I'm not exactly a teacher. I write… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Most of these university types are total phonies. They’re scared to death somebody’s gonna find out they don’t know something. They 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
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“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
“Intelligent teenage girls were often instinctively theatrical, purposely eccentric, mouthing highly suggestive words to confuse people.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
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
The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
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
“that one of our problems was our inability to recognize and accept our own deformities” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“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… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“You let something out of the bag before yourself knew what it was all about” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
