Not that running away's going to solve everything. I don't want to rain on your parade or anything, but I wouldn't count… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
So the fact that I’m me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by bit I raise… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough." "Waiting for perfect love?" "No, even I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
At any rate, that’s how I started running. Thirty three—that’s how old I was then. Still young enough, though no longer a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
One foot in front of the other. Repeat as often as necessary to finish. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“As I run I tell myself to think of a river. And clouds. But essentially I'm thinking of not a thing. All… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The thoughts that occur to me while I’m running are like clouds in the sky. Clouds of all different sizes. They come… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The rain that fell on the city runs down the dark gutters and empties into the sea without even soaking the ground — 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
I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at a desk for… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When I'm running I don't have to talk to anybody and don't have to listen to anybody. This is a part of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I've been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I get up early in the morning, 4 o'clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Even when I ran my bar I followed the same policy. A lot of customers came to the bar. If one in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Everybody's born with some different thing at the core of their existence. And that thing, whatever it is, becomes like a heat… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Running taught me to have faith in my skills as a writer. I learned how much I can demand of myself, when… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If I used being busy as an excuse not to run, I'd never run again. I have only a few reasons to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I didn't start running because somebody asked me to become a runner. Just like I didn't become a novelist because someone asked… — 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
