Some people can work their butts off and never get what they're aiming for while others can get it without any effort… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Animals that not only move by their own free will and share feelings with people but also possess sight and hearing qualify… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I'm talking to people, I always want… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I happen to like the strange ones. People who look normal and leads normal lives - they're the ones you have to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It's a quiet place, so people talk quietly," said Naoko. She made a neat pile of fish bones at the edge of… — 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
I probably still haven’t completely adapted to the world. I don’t know, I feel like this isn’t the real world. The people,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go to work. Somewhere out… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'm not intelligent. I'm not arrogant. I'm just like the people who read my books. I used to have a jazz club,… — 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 think that my job is to observe people and the world, and not to judge them. I always hope to position… — 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
Hey, what is it with you? Why are you so spaced out? You still haven't answered me." I probably still haven't completely… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I tell you, Mr. Okada, a cold beer at the end of the day is the best thing life has to offer.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I want to write stories that are different from the ones I've written so far, Junpei thought: I want to write about… — 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
You and he might never cross paths again. Of course, a chance meeting could occur, and I hope it happens. I really… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Since I'm a novelist I'm the opposite of you - I believe that what's most important is what cannot be measured. I'm… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The house kept its own time, like the old-fashioned grandfather clock in the living room. People who happened by raised the weights,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little. I had not intended to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I've run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I… — 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 bet the reason people are afraid of going bald is because it makes them think of the end of life. I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
People lose fifty million skin cells every day. The cells get scraped off and turn into invisible dust, and disappear into the… — 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
You always look so cool, like no matter what happens, it’s got nothing to do with you, but you’re not really like… — 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
“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
One last word of advice, though, Mr. Okada, though you may not want to hear this. There are things in this world… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
That's the kind of death that frightens me. The shadow of death slowly, slowly eats away at the region of life, and… — 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
You know, eating's much more important than most people think. There comes a time in your life when you've just got to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
People sometimes sneer at those who run every day, claiming they'll go to any length to live longer. But don't think that's… — 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
She was a keen observer, a precise user of language, sharp-tongued and funny. She could stir your emotions. Yes, really, that's what… — 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'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves.… — 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 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
