“The new day is almost here, but the old one is still dragging its heavy skirts. Just as ocean water and river… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It was not just that he had terrible style: he also gave the impression that he was deliberately desecrating the very idea… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Reality was one step out of line, a cardigan with the buttons done up wrong.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“He did not have the sort of looks suited for stakeouts or tailing people. As much as he might try to lose… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The best point of my novels, I think, is their humor. I want to keep many my works humorous. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Reiko set the ball on the ground and patted my knee. "Look," she said, "I'm not telling you to stop sleeping with… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Anyway, I'm in bed with her, with her bracelets. Her face is a blank, so I darken the lights. Off go her… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Mr. Sheep Man," I asked. "Why would that old man want to eat my brains?" "Because brains packed with knowledge are yummy,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“So it was that my most impressionable years of boyhood were spent gazing at not a whale, but a whale's penis. Whenever… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It was a simple meal, but ideal for preventing constipation. Constipation was one of the things she hated most in the world,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Once she called to invite me to a concert of Liszt piano concertos. The soloist was a famous South American pianist. I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Around young, beautiful, fat women, I am generally thrown into confusion. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s because an image of their… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Look Mister, I don't care what you think, you are bald. If the census had a "bald" category, You'd be in it,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“You have to say 'Men with a thinning problem'. Bald is discriminatory. I was joking around once and suggested 'gentlemen who are… — 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
