“The strength I'm looking for isn't the type where you win or lose. I'm not after a wall that'll repel power coming… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“My only strength has always been the fact that I work hard and can take a lot physically.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“No truth can cure the sadness we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness, can… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“There must be a limit to that kind of lifestyle, though," she says. "You can’t use that strength as a protective wall… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“All through high school and college, his judo coach and older teammates would often say to him, "You have the talent and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The strength I'm looking for isn't the kind where you win or lose. I'm not after a wall that'll repel power coming… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Strong and independent? I'm neither one. I'm just being pushed along by reality, whether I like it or not.” — 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
