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
Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The ones with no imagination are always the quickest to justify themselves. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You're afraid of imagination and even more afraid of dreams. Afraid of the resposibility that begins in dreams. But you have to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You're afraid of imagination and even more afraid of dreams. Afraid of the responsibility that begins in dreams. But you have to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Still, though, I can't be sure if the zoo as I recall it was really like that. How can I put it?… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It is all a question of imagination. Our responsibility begins with the power to Imagine. In dreams begin responsibilities.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It's all a question of imagination. Our responsibility begins with the power to imagine. It's just as Yeats said: In dreams begin… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“A Russian who uses his imagination is done for. I certainly never use mine.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The whole terrible fight occured in the area of imagination. That is the precise location of our battlefield. It is there, that… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I'll just come right out and say it, rich people have no imagination. They can't even scratch their own asses without a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Only people who have been discriminated against can really know how much it hurts. Each person feels the pain in his own… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It's all a question of imagination. Our responsibility begins with the power to imagine.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It's all a question of imagination. Our responsibility begins with the power to imagine. It's just like Yeats said: In dreams begin… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Music always stimulates my imagination. When I'm writing I usually have some Baroque music on low in the background chamber music by… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
But intolerant,narrow minds with no imagination are like parasites that transform the host,change form,and continue to thrive. They're a lost cause, 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
