Things outside you are projections of what's inside you, and what's inside you is a projection of what's outside. So when you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
But I didn't walk a single step. I stopped a lot to stretch, but I never walked. I didn't come here to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I bet the reason people are afraid of going bald is because it makes them think of the end of life. I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I was twenty-one at the time, about to turn twenty-two. No prospect of graduating soon, and yet no reason to quit school.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Kafka is one of my very favorite writers. Kafka's fictional world is already so complete that trying to follow in his steps… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Her smile steps offstage for a moment, then does an encore, all while I'm dealing with my blushing face. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Then when dusk began to settle he would retrace his steps, back to his own world. And on the way home, a… — 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
