The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I can't build a simple shelf. I have no idea how to change an oil filter on a car. I can't even… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I've never met a girl who thinks like you." "A lot of people tell me that," she said, digging at a cuticle.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You don’t get it, do you?" I said. “It’s not a question of ‘what then’. Some people get a kick out of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Tengo could hardly believe it-- that in this frantic, labyrinth-like world, two people's hearts-- a boy's and a girl's-- could be connected,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Why do people have to build such depressing places? I'm not saying that every nook and cranny of the world has to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Gays, lesbians, straights, feminists, fascist pigs, communists, Hare Krishnas - none of them bother me. I don't care what banner they raise.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What's really important here," I whispered loudly to myself,"is not the big things other people have thought up, but the small things… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I don't know -- maybe the world has two different kinds of people, and for one kind the world is this completely… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Isn't life strange? There are people who have so many leftover clothes they can't stuff them all in their wardrobe. And then… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In everybodys life there is a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you cant go… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Stories lie deep in our souls. Stories lie so deep at the bottom of our hearts that they can bring people together… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What do we talk about? Just ordinary things. What happened today, or books we've read, or tomorrow's weather, you know. Don't tell… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Colors shone with exceptional clarity in the rain. The ground was a deep black, the pine branches a brilliant green, the people… — 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
Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Aren't you afraid of dying? Not really. I've watched lots of good-for-nothing, worthless people die, and if people like that can do… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Whenever I meet people for the first time, I get them to talk for ten minutes. Then I size them up from… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I may not be the most likable person in the world, but I try not to upset people. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical,… — 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
