“I never once thought I wanted to be a soldier. I wanted to be a teacher. As soon as I left college,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“There’s an upside to passengers too. A guy around 50, always travels on the first train of the day, always used to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Between the time the last train leaves and the first train arrives, the place changes: it's not the same as in daytime. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“They use a training manual instead of sacred scriptures, with promotion and a high salary as their equivalent of enlightenment and paradise.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I get irritated, I get upset. Especially when I'm in a hurry. But I see it all as part of our training.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“We were both at a delicate age, when the mere fact that we went to different schools and lived two train stops… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Fortunately, these two disciplines—focus and endurance—are different from talent, since they can be acquired and sharpened through training.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in school, where… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Like you're riding a train at night across some vast plain, and you catch a glimpse of a tiny light in a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by bit I raise… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, "I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Like boarding a train running parallel. That's what disappearing is.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at a desk for… — 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
If you miss the bus, miss the train, you’d be left behind. So everyone says, let’s get on the train, let’s get… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I know I have a pretty good sense for music, but she was better than me. I used to think it was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“There are three reasons I failed. Not enough training. Not enough training. And not enough training.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It’s the first thing I always say at our new employee training seminars. I gaze around the room, pick one person, and… — 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
