If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“We're on the border of this world, speaking a common language. That's all.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It is cognition that is the fantasy.... Everything I tell you now is mere words. Arrange them and rearrange them as I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us. If we were no longer here, words would lose their whole… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I like to write. I like to choose the right word, I like to write the right sentence. It's just like gardening… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It is my huge pleasure that my novels are translated into languages that are read among small numbers of people. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
So for all that we might speak words in each other's vicinity, this could never develop into anything that could be called… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
She was a keen observer, a precise user of language, sharp-tongued and funny. She could stir your emotions. Yes, really, that's what… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I've translated a lot of American literature into Japanese, and I think that what makes a good translator is, above all, a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Not being able to find the right words at crucial times is one of my many problems.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us. If we were no longer here, words would lose their whole… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I wondered if she was trying to convey something to me, something she could not put into words - something prior to… — 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
