“The strength I'm looking for isn't the type where you win or lose. I'm not after a wall that'll repel power coming… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It’s pretty thin, the wall separating healthy confidence and unhealthy Pride. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
"Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg."… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I’m not trying to imply I can keep up this silent, isolated facade all the time. Sometimes the wall I’ve erected around… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
How can the mind be so imperfect?" she says with a smile. I look at my hands. Bathed in the moonlight, they… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The grounds of the place were dominated by several large, old willow trees that towered over the surrounding stone wall and swayed… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I’ve built a wall around me, never letting anybody inside and trying not to venture outside myself — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'm in no position to hand down any advice," he said, "but there's a rule I follow when I don't know what… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
As long as I stared at the clock, at least the world remained in motion. Not a very consequential world, but in… — 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
