“You mean, if you knew me better, you'd force stuff on me like everybody else? Toru: It's possible," I said. "That's how… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Where I'm living is not a storybook world. It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I am not religious. I only believe in the power of imagination. And the fact that there isn't only one reality. The… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
That's how people live in the real world: forcing stuff on each other. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I don't know you well enough to force stuff on you." "You mean, if you knew me better, you'd force stuff on… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It’s the first thing I always say at our new employee training seminars. I gaze around the room, pick one person, and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Why do you like jellyfish so much?" I asked. "I don't know. I guess I think they're cute," she said. "But one… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The facts and techniques or whatever they teach you in class isn't going to be veryuseful in the real world, that's for… — 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
