“When you prick a person with a needle, red blood comes out- that's the real world.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Not all guns have to be fired. A pistol is just a tool and where I am living is not a story… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Slowly, like a movie fadeout, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favorite feeling in the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“What we see before us is just one tiny part of the world. We get into the habit of thinking, 'This is… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“What the real world is: that is a very difficult problem,' the man called Leader said as he lay on his stomach.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
No matter how clear things might become in the forest of story, there was never a clear-cut solution, as there was in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The facts and techniques or whatever they teach you in class isn't going to be very useful in the real world, that's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I don't know, I feel like this isn't the real world. The people, the scene: they just don't seem real to me.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness. — 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
“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
“There's no longer any place for a Big Brother in this real world of ours. Instead, these so-called Little People have come… — 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
“In front of the inn was a beautiful mountain stream where one could catch lots of firm, colorful fish. Noisy birds were… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
This is no honky-tonk parade. 1Q84 is the real world, where a cut draws real blood, where pain is real pain and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The feel of her hand has never left me. It was different from any other hand I'd ever held, different from any… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I sit at a café in the village and gulp down cold Amstel beer. It tastes fantastic, but not nearly as great… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It was merely the small, warm hand of a twelve-year-old girl, yet those five fingers and that palm were like a display… — 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
“Slowly, like a movie fadeout, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favorite feeling in the… — 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
“It seemed as if the colours of the real world around me had begun to drain away from my having done nothing… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The real world is in a much darker and deeper place than this, and most of it is occupied by jellyfish and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Those five fingers and that palm were like a display case crammed full of everything I wanted to know--and everything I had… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“What we see before us is just one tiny part of the world. We get into the habit of thinking, This is… — 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
