“But this is something that you have to figure out on your own. Nobody can help you. That's what love's all about,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
He appeared before me and departed. We were not able to speak to or touch each other. But in that short interval,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“He wasn't normally conscious of it, but there was one part of his body that was extremely sensitive, somewhere along his back.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
That’s what love’s all about. You’re the only one having those wonderful feelings, but you have to go it alone as you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
My very existence, my life in the world, seemed like a hallucination. A strong wind would make me think my body was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“That's what love's all about, Kafka. You're the one having those wonderful feelings, but you have to go it alone as you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“No one in my family, not one of my friends or classmates realized that I was going through life asleep. It was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Oshima's silent for a time as he gazes at the forest, eyes narrowed. Birds are flitting from one branch to the next.… — 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
