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
Things like that happen all the time in this great big world of ours. It's like taking a boat out on a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There's not much you can do about time - it just keeps on passing. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“One day, I lost sight of her. I happened to glance away for a moment, and when I turned back, she had… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It's sometimes hard to avoid losing. Nobody's going to win all the time.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Mountains, according to the angle of view, the season, the time of day, the beholder's frame of mind, or any one thing,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“And she leaves. She opens the door and, without a backward glance, goes out and shuts the door. I stand at the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Of course you got rights, the law's on your side, but sometimes the law takes a long time to kick in and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Some people are polite, and some are quick. Each one’s a good quality to have, but most of the time quickness trumps… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“One generation takes over from the next. This is how things are handed over in this world, so I don’t feel so… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I like to write. I like to choose the right word, I like to write the right sentence. It's just like gardening… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The past became a long, razor-sharp skewer that stabbed right through his heart.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Nobody would take the time and effort to hang a fake moon in a real sky.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Instead of things I'm good at, it might be faster to list the things I can't do. I can't cook or clean… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“You have to look!" Johnnie Walker commanded. "That's another one of our rules. Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I spent thirty-three years in another man's shadow. I went everywhere he went, I helped him with everything he did. I was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“This was his favorite time of day, reading to his heart's content before going to sleep. When he tired of reading, he… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The truth sometimes reminds me of a city buried in sand. As time passes, the sand piles up even thicker, and occasionally… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I've run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You live by yourself for a stretch of time and you get to staring at different objects. Sometimes you talk to yourself.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“And each time he finished a sentence, there was a tiny but meaningful lump of silence left behind. This lump floated there,… — 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
“What Tengo would have to do, it seemed, was take a hard, honest look at the past while standing at the crossroads… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Didn't someone once say, 'A friend to kill time is a friend sublime'?" "That was you who said that, no?" "Sixth sense,… — 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
