I always feel like I'm struggling to become someone else. Like I'm trying to find a new place, grab hold of a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I've never met a girl who thinks like you." "A lot of people tell me that," she said, digging at a cuticle.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Well, think of what I’m doing to you right now. For me I’m the self, and you’re the object. For you, of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'm not human. I'm a piece of machinery. I don't need to feel a thing. Just forge on ahead. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A girl doesn't always want to go out, you know, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. Sometimes she feels like being nasty--like, if the guy's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I hate requests. They make me feel unhappy. It's like when I take a book out of the library. As soon as… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“That’s why I like to listen to Schubert while I’m driving. Like I said, it’s because all the performances are imperfect. A… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Whether it's good for anything or not, cool or totally uncool, in the final analysis what's most important is what you can't… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I think of life, I feel like a piece of driftwood washed up on shore. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It is however, difficult to make your narratives relative by yourself. A novelists' work is to provide models to make your narratives… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I can be hurt, you know. I can get as exhausted as anybody else. I can feel so bad I want to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
To be able to talk to your heart’s content about a book you like with someone who feels the same way about… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I’m not trying to imply I can keep up this silent, isolated facade all the time. Sometimes the wall I’ve erected around… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What’s most important is what you can’t see but can feel in your heart. To be able to grasp something of value,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I do feel that I’ve managed to make something I could maybe call my world…over time…little by little. And when I’m inside… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I don't know a whole lot about symbolism. There seems to me to be a potential danger in symbolism. I feel more… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I've run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I’ve had that kind of experience myself: I’m looking at a map and I see someplace that makes me think, ‘I absolutely… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I read Naoko's letter again and again, and each time I read it I would be filled with the same unbearable sadness… — 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
