Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. This really came home to me once I started writing fiction,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I have come to think that life is a far more limited thing than those in the midst of its maelstorm realize.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I try not to think about anything special while running. As a matter of fact, I usually run with my mind empty.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i'm still the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Of course it hurt that we could never love each other in a physical way. We would have been far more happy… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'd made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a world it might be, this… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
"Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg."… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
No matter how clear things might become in the forest of story, there was never a clear-cut solution, as there was in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
No matter how long you stand there examining yourself naked before a mirror, you'll never see reflected what's inside. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through, is now like something from the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
No matter what the situation may be, I still take pleasure in witnessing the joy of others. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
But I didn't walk a single step. I stopped a lot to stretch, but I never walked. I didn't come here to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I’ve had that kind of experience myself: I’m looking at a map and I see someplace that makes me think, ‘I absolutely… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Not that running away's going to solve everything. I don't want to rain on your parade or anything, but I wouldn't count… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What matters is deciding in your heart to accept another person completely. When you do that, it is always the first time… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It's all matter of attitude. You could let a lot of things bother you if you wanted to But it's pretty much… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It doesn’t matter how old I get, but as long as I continue to live I’ll always discover something new about myself. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no matter what you do,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I began to draw an invisible boundary between myself and other people. No matter who I was dealing with. I maintained a… — 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
