I can never say what I want to say, it's been like this for a while now. I try to say something… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I was attracted to her from the first time we talked, and soon there was no turning back. For a long time… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I can never say what I want to say," continued Naoko. "It's been like this for a while now. I try to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Symbolism and meaning are two separate things. I think she found the right words by bypassing procedures like meaning and logic. She… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
But this thing, whatever it was, this mistlike something, hung there inside my body like a certain kind of potential. I wanted… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“These days I just can't seem to say what I mean,' she said. 'I just can't. Every time I try to say… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
These days I just can't seem to say what I mean [...]. I just can't. Every time I try to say something,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Not being able to find the right words at crucial times is one of my many problems.” — 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