Your work should be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Where and how did my relationship with Kumiko go wrong? That's what I can't understand. Not that I'm saying everything was perfect… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The couple in the Skyline came to mind. Why did I have this fixation on them? Well, what else did I have… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“We had two black ski masks in the glove compartment. Why my wife owned a shotgun, I had no idea. Or ski… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“My husband and I see each other only on weekends, and generally get along well. We're like good friends, life partners able… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“He always carries two lucky charms his wife gave him—not that he really believes in that sort of thing …” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Why my wife owned a shotgun, I had no idea. Or ski masks. Neither of us had ever skied. But she didn't… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'm still not sure I made the right choice when I told my wife about the bakery attack.But then,it might not have… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Most people, they’re trying to escape from boredom, but I’m trying to get into the thick of boredom. That’s why I’m not… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“To him, they looked like shadows that his wife had left behind. Size 7 shadows of his wife hung there in long… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Whenever an occasion arose in which she needed an opinion on something in the wider world, she borrowed her husband's. If this… — 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
