It was spring break, so the theater was always packed with high schools students. It was an animal house. I wanted to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I think of human existence as being like a two-story house. On the rst oor people gather together to take their meals,… — 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
A regular wind-up toy world this is, I think. Once a day the wind-up bird has to come and wind the springs… — 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
Instead of things I'm good at, it might be faster to list the things I can't do. I can't cook or clean… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Has the dark shadow really disappeared? Or is it inside me, concealed, waiting for its chance to reappear? Like a clever thief… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me awake… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Nakata's empty inside... Do you know what it means to be completely empty? Being empty is like a vacant house. An unlocked,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You end up exhausted and spent, but later, in retrospect, you realize what it all was for. The parts fall into place,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I was in my house, alone in the living room, anxious about you, watching the flashes of lightning. And a flash of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The house kept its own time, like the old-fashioned grandfather clock in the living room. People who happened by raised the weights,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Were the stars out when I left the house last evening? All I could remember was the couple in the Skyline listening… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Silence. How long it lasted, I couldn't tell. It might have been five seconds, it might have been a minute. Time wasn't… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Once thing goes wrong, then the whole house of cards collapses. And there's no way you can extricate yourself. Until someone comes… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A man is like a two-story house. The first floor is equipped with an entrance and a living room. On the second… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In any case, suffice it to say I enjoyed hearing about faraway places. I had stocked up a whole store of these… — 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
