“Strong and independent? I'm neither one. I'm just being pushed along by reality, whether I like it or not.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent. That” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
So the fact that I’m me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven't belonged to any company or any system.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I have always liked running, so it wasn't particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you need is a pair of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
From the girl who sat before me now...surged a fresh and physical life force. She was like a small animal that has… — 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
