...most people in the world don't really use their brains to think. And people who don't think are the ones who don't… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What I think is this: You should give up looking for lost cats and start searching for the other half of your… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What do you think? I'm not a starfish or a pepper tree. I'm a living, breathing human being. Of course I've been… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In terms of evolutionary history, it was only yesterday that men learned to walk around on two legs and get in trouble… — 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
Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks I'm this delicate little girl. But you can't tell a book by it's cover.' To which she added a momentary… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It feels good to think about you when I'm warm in bed. I feel as if you're curled up there beside me,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What I saw wasn't a ghost. It was simply--myself. I can never forget how terrified I was that night, and whenever I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You know, they've got these chocolate assortments, and you like some but you don't like others? And you eat all the ones… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Human beings are ultimately nothing but carriers-passageways- for genes. They ride us into the ground like racehorses from generation to generation. Genes… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion,'" she repeats, making sure of it. If she had paper and pencil, it wouldn't surprise… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I don't think jealousy has much of a connection with real, objective conditions. Like if you're fortunate you're not jealous, but if… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I think certain types of processes don’t allow for any variation. If you have to be part of that process, all you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Well, think of what I’m doing to you right now. For me I’m the self, and you’re the object. For you, of… — 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
It's basically the same in all periods of societies. If you belong to the majority, you can avoid thinking about lots of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I do feel that I’ve managed to make something I could maybe call my world…over time…little by little. And when I’m inside… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I have been told I've got a darkish personality. A few times." Takahashi swings his trombone case from his right shoulder to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I’ve had that kind of experience myself: I’m looking at a map and I see someplace that makes me think, ‘I absolutely… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Lying there, I close my eyes for a time, then open them. I silently breathe in, then out. A thought begins to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I think memory is the most important asset of human beings. It's a kind of fuel; it burns and it warms you.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When you're young, you think you can handle anything. By the time you find out otherwise, it's already too late. You got… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I generally concentrate on work for three or four hours every morning. I sit at my desk and focus totally on what… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I think of rivers, of tides. Forests and water gushing out. Rain and lightning. Rocks and shadows. All of these are in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you think about it, an unfair society is a society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I’ve never once thought about how I was going to die,” she said. “I can’t think about it. I don’t even know… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You've already decided what you're going to do, and all that's left is to set the wheels in motion. I mean, it's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Narratives have the same power, I think. Some readers of my novels ask me, "Why do you understand me?". That's a huge… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you think God’s there, He is. If you don’t, He isn’t. And if that’s what God’s like, I wouldn’t worry about… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Possibilities are like cancer. The more I think about them, the more they multiply, and there's no way to stop them. I'm… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If I'm going to merely ramble, maybe I should just snuggle under the warm covers, think of Miu, and play with myself. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don't… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I think of myself as more the non-turn-on type. so when I do get turned on, I don’t trust it, I have… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You might think you made a new world or a new self, but your old self is always gonna be there, just… — 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
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“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
“Intelligent teenage girls were often instinctively theatrical, purposely eccentric, mouthing highly suggestive words to confuse people.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
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
The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
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
“that one of our problems was our inability to recognize and accept our own deformities” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Some people get a kick out of reading railway timetables and that's all they do all day. Some people make huge model boats out… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“When the time comes, everybody’s got to end up where they belong. Only me, I didn’t have a place to call my own. It’s… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“You let something out of the bag before yourself knew what it was all about” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
