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
“But at some point Tengo noticed that returning to reality from the world of a novel was not as devastating a blow… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“A deaf composer's like a cook who's lost his sense of taste. A frog that's lost its webbed feet. A truck driver… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“He was a far more voracious reader than me, but he made it a rule to never touch a book by any… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I was enjoying myself writing, because I don't know what's going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“That is dreamreading. As the birds leave south or north in their season, the Dreamreader has dreams to read.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I think people who share my dreams can enjoy reading my novels. And that's a wonderful thing. I said that myths are… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“This was his favorite time of day, reading to his heart's content before going to sleep. When he tired of reading, he… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Slowly like a movie fade out, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favorite feeling in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in school, where… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Of course, reading novels was just another form of escape. As soon as he closed their pages he had to come back… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Daca am citi doar ce citesc si altii ,am ajunge sa gandim ca toata lumea.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“[...] he made it a rule never to touch a book by any author who had not been dead at least 30… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I have read all my novels that were translated into English. Reading my novels is enjoyable because I forget almost all the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Reading aloud is different from just following sentences with your eyes. Something quite unexpected wells up in your mind, a kind of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“If u only read the books that everyone's reading, you can think what everyone else is thinking.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Whether in music or in fiction, the most basic thing is rhythm. Your style needs to have good, natural, steady rhythm, or… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I can't imagine how American readers will react to a novel, but if the story is appealing it doesn't matter much if… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Many people tell me that they don 't know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A man is like a two-story house. The first floor is equipped with an entrance and a living room. On the second… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books. — 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
