If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Listen to this, Nimit. Follow Coleman Hawkins' improvised lines very carefully. He is using them to tell us something. Pay very close… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Stories lie deep in our souls. Stories lie so deep at the bottom of our hearts that they can bring people together… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Myths are the prototype for all stories. When we write a story on our own it can't help but link up with… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
No matter how clear things might become in the forest of story, there was never a clear-cut solution, as there was in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I was enjoying myself writing, because I don't know what's going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I think people who share my dreams can enjoy reading my novels. And that's a wonderful thing. I said that myths are… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights.… — 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
“The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a single problem into another form. ... It was like… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
They sat on a park bench, held hands, and told each other their stories hour after hour. They were not lonely anymore.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Most people are not looking for provable truths. As you said, truth is often accompanied by intense pain, and almost no one… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
My short stories are like soft shadows I have set out in the world, faint footprints I have left. I remember exactly… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
According to Chekhov," Tamaru said, rising from his chair, "once a gun appears in a story, it has to be fired." "Meaning… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When a writer develops a story, he is confronted with a poison that is inside him. If you don't have that poison,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Strange and mysterious things, though, aren't they - earthquakes? We take it for granted that the earth beneath our feet is solid… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I write weird stories. I don't know why I like weirdness so much ... But when I write, I write weird. That's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I never plan. I never know what the next page is going to be..... But that's the fun of writing a novel… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I want to write stories that are different from the ones I've written so far, Junpei thought: I want to write about… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In Japan they prefer the realistic style. They like answers and conclusions, but my stories have none. I want to leave them… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I can't imagine how American readers will react to a novel, but if the story is appealing it doesn't matter much if… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. The two processes complement… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A man is like a two-story house. The first floor is equipped with an entrance and a living room. On the second… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I myself, as I'm writing, don't know who did it. The readers and I are on the same ground. When I start… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don't want to write messages. I want to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The moon had been observing the earth close-up longer than anyone. It must have witnessed all of the phenomena occurring - and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
As a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What I'd like to be is a unique writer who's different from everybody else. I want to be a writer who tells… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You know, the usual story. Once upon a time I was playing my harp by a spring when a fairy appeared out… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in… — 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
