I had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn't have to write for my living. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Money was not a living thing. It wouldn’t run off anywhere if he left it alone. Probably.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The sad spreadsheet of my life that reveals how much my debts far outweigh my assets.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Abundant talent is like a rich vein of water underground that finds all sorts of places to gush forth(..)” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I'll just come right out and say it, rich people have no imagination. They can't even scratch their own asses without a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
She lived frugally, but her meals were the only things on which she deliberately spent her money. She never compromised on the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“You've got to spend your money for the things that money can buy, not worry about profit or loss. Save your energy… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Money had no name, of course. And if it did have a name, it would no longer be money. What gave money… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“She could not help but feel that paying money to take ownership of a living organism was inappropriate.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Well, look at it another way: why shouldn’t there be cats in a zoo?" I said. "They’re animals, too, right?" "Cats and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The total amount of time available is especially limited. The clock is ticking as we speak. Time rushes past. Opportunities are lost… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don't have to think about money. The best… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they owe… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I don't give a damn about power and money per se. Really, I don't. I may be a selfish bastard, but I'm… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I always felt as if I'd been handed a cardboard box crammed full of monkeys. I'd take the monkeys out of the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“There's that kind of money in the world. It aggravates you to have it, makes you miserable to spend it, and you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Here," he said, "get yourself some healthy food. You look awful." I said he had done more than enough for me and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Talent can be a nice thing to have sometimes. You look good, attract attention, and if you’re lucky, you make some money.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Once you make up your mind to get rid of something, there’s very little you can’t discard. No – not very little.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Because you are neither an angel nor a god. I am quite aware that your actions have been prompted by your pure… — 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
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“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
“Intelligent teenage girls were often instinctively theatrical, purposely eccentric, mouthing highly suggestive words to confuse people.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
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
The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
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
“that one of our problems was our inability to recognize and accept our own deformities” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Some people get a kick out of reading railway timetables and that's all they do all day. Some people make huge model boats out… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“When the time comes, everybody’s got to end up where they belong. Only me, I didn’t have a place to call my own. It’s… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“You let something out of the bag before yourself knew what it was all about” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
