“There were times he thought it would have been far better to never have known. Yet he continued to return to his… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Six years during which time I'd laid three cats to rest. Burned how many aspirations, bundled up how much suffering in thick… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Silence. How long it lasted, I couldn't tell. It might have been five seconds, it might have been a minute. Time wasn't… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I noticed for the first time that his expression was completely changed - strangely expressionless, eyes out of focus. He seemed to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Sitting on the floor, I'd replay the past in my head. Funny, that's all I did, day after day after day for… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You’re optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“My eyes in the mirror are cold as a lizard's, my expression fixed and unreadable. I can't remember the last time I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
As long as there's such a thing as time, everybody's damaged in the end, changed into something else. It always happens, sooner… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I mean, all I do here is do the work that my bosses tell me to do the way they tell me… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I feel very strongly that all Japanese at that time had the idea drilled into them of 1999 being the end of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“His mind floated in the amniotic fluid of memory, listening for echoes of the past. His father, meanwhile, had no idea that… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“That’s life, man. The sand of the times keeps running out from under our feet. We’re no longer standing where we once… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“You close your eyes, and all that comes to mind are the mistakes of the past.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“If I’m asked what the next most important quality is for a novelist, that’s easy too: focus—the ability to concentrate all your… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It's little strange, perhaps, to make this claim at such a late date, but Gatsby really is an outstanding novel. I never… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Just as I have my own role to play, so does time. And time does its job much more faithfully, much more… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“No one noticed that I had changed- that I had given up sleep entirely, that I was spending all my time reading,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“When you sneak into somebody’s backyard, it does seem that guts and curiosity are working together. Curiosity can bring guts out of… — 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
