Stories lie deep in our souls. Stories lie so deep at the bottom of our hearts that they can bring people together… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Everything. Things you lost. Things you’re gonna lose. Everything. Here’s where it all ties together. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
But why should you be interested in me?" Good question. I can’t explain it myself right this moment. But maybe – just… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It is however, difficult to make your narratives relative by yourself. A novelists' work is to provide models to make your narratives… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
No matter what you tell me, no matter how legitimate your reasons, I can never just forget about you, I can never… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I have this strange feeling that I'm not myself anymore. It's hard to put into words, but I guess it's like I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When it's raining like this," said Naoko, "it feels as if we're the only ones in the world. I wish it would… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
She's kind of funny looking. Her face is out of balance--broad forehead, button nose, freckled cheeks, and pointy ears. A slammed-together, rough… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I wrote a huge number of letters that spring: one a week to Naoko, several to Reiko, and several more to Midori.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Like a Chinese box, the world of the novel contained smaller worlds, and inside those were yet smaller worlds. Together, these worlds… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Wasn't it better if they kept this desire to see each other hidden within them, and never actually got together? That way,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
This uneasiness comes over me from time to time, and I feel as if I've somehow been pieced together from two different… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Overhead, the two moons worked together to bathe the world in a strange light. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps 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
