“Eleven o'clock had come and gone. I had to find a way to bring this conversation to a successful conclusion and get… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I’m through with sleep! So what if I go mad? So what if I lose my “ground of being”? I will not… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Until now, I had conceived of sleep as a kind of model for death. I had imagined death as an extension of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Whenever I got home late, I'd always go to my son's room first, to see his sleeping face. Sometimes I was seized… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A regular wind-up toy world this is, I think. Once a day the wind-up bird has to come and wind the springs… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“With Naoko gone, I went to sleep on the sofa. I hadn't intended to do so, but I fell into the kind… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You're afraid of imagination and even more afraid of dreams. Afraid of the resposibility that begins in dreams. But you have to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me awake… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
two people can sleep in the same bed and still be alone when they close their eyes — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You're afraid of imagination and even more afraid of dreams. Afraid of the responsibility that begins in dreams. But you have to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I closed my eyes and tried to sleep. But it was not until much later that I was able to get any… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Even if you don't acknowledge it, people die, and guys sleep with girls. That's just how it is. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Okay, let’s put it this way. I would like to sleep with you. But it’s alright if I don’t sleep with you.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“No one noticed that I had changed- that I had given up sleep entirely, that I was spending all my time reading,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
And her sleep was too long and deep for that:so deep that she left her normal reality behind. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
To sleep with a woman: it can seem of the utmost importance in your mind, or then again it can seem like… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go to work. Somewhere out… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Hatsumi had a pretty good idea that Nagasawa was sleeping around, but she never complained to him. She was seriously in love… — 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
