pulled into my convenient neighborhood fast food restaurant. I ordered shrimp salad, onion rings, and a beer. The shrimp were straight out… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Thinking about lunch. Smoked salmon with pedigreed lettuce and razor-sharp slices of onion that have been soaked in ice water, brushed with… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Number one of the list now was a diet book entitled Eat as much as You Want of the Food You Love… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“ah yes, you like to cook, don't you? well, i used to. you need real dedication. fresh ingredients, a discerning palate, an… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“When you get to be my age, you can stay alive eating very little,' she said. 'Of the finest food possible,' she… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It's good when food tastes good, it's kind of like proof you're alive. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Cooking was not a chore for Tengo. He always used it as a time to think - about everyday problems, about math… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“That was her entire dinner. It was a simple meal, but ideal for preventing constipation. Constipation was one of the things she… — 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
