One listless day followed another, with nothing to distinguish one from the next. You could have changed the order and no one… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In order to pin down reality as realilty, we need another reality to relativize the first. Yet that other reality requires a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Well, finally, the events I've been through have been tremendously complicated. All kinds of characters have come on the scene, and strange… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Reaching the finish line, never walking, and enjoying the race. These three, in this order, are my goals. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
So the fact that I’m me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I used to think the years would go by in order, that you get older one year at a time. But it's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Listen - God only exists in people's minds. Especially in Japan, God's always been kind of a flexible concept. Look at what… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You can’t look too far ahead. Do that and you’ll lose sight of what you’re doing and stumble. I’m not saying you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I am struck by how, except when you're young, you really need to prioritize in life, figuring out in what order you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The sun sliced through the windshield, sealing me in light. I closed my eyes and felt the warmth on my eyelids. Sunlight… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if I could tell the difference—between just staring into space and thinking. We're usually thinking all the time, aren't… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Where I went in my travels, it's impossible for me to recall. I remember the sights and sounds and smells clearly enough,… — 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
