“Being tough isn’t in and of itself a bad thing. Looking back on it, though, I can see I was too used… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Whenever I write a novel, I have a strong sense that I am doing something I was unable to do before. With… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Kumiko and I felt something for each other from the beginning. It was not one of those strong, impulsive feelings that can… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You are a beautiful person, Doctor. Clearheaded. Strong. But you seem always to be dragging your heart along the ground. From now… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It's physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Nobody is going to help me. Al least no one has until now. So I have to make it on my own.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
As I see it, you are living with something that you keep hidden deep inside. Something heavy. I felt it from the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course, you have to be strong mentally,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
My very existence, my life in the world, seemed like a hallucination. A strong wind would make me think my body was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grows stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter” — 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
