But why should you be interested in me?" Good question. I can’t explain it myself right this moment. But maybe – just… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Even chance meetings are the result of karma… Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“True, luck may rule over parts of a person's life and luck may cast patches of shadow across the ground of our… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“And you know, this thought crossed my mind at the time: maybe chance is a pretty common thing after all. Those kinds… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“But then again, chance has nothing to do with it. Your two fates did not cross through mere happenstance. The two of… — 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
