When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“No,' I said, 'I don't want to go anywhere alone. I'll fall apart if I don't have you. I need you. Please,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you really want to know what's happening here and now, you've got to use your own eyes and your own judgment. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If there’s something I can’t do but want to, I won’t relax until I’m able to do it. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I don't want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I don't care what you do to me, but I don't want you to hurt me. I've had enough hurt already in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I don't want our relationship to end like this. You're one of the very few friends I have, and it hurts not… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A girl doesn't always want to go out, you know, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. Sometimes she feels like being nasty--like, if the guy's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
But intolerant,narrow minds with no imagination are like parasites that transform the host,change form,and continue to thrive. They're a lost cause, and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they owe… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'm not intelligent. I'm not arrogant. I'm just like the people who read my books. I used to have a jazz club,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You're not a kid anymore. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you want a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough." "Waiting for perfect love?" "No, even I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Fairness is a concept that holds only in limited situations. Yet we want the concept to extend to everything, in and out… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I want to write stories that are different from the ones I've written so far, Junpei thought: I want to write about… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I tell you, Mr. Okada, a cold beer at the end of the day is the best thing life has to offer.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I can never say what I want to say, it's been like this for a while now. I try to say something… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I was dying to have a cat. But they wouldn't let me. My mother hated them. Not once in my life have… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Everything has boundaries. the same holds true with thought. you shouldn't fear boundaries, but you also should not be afraid of destroying… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Okay, let’s put it this way. I would like to sleep with you. But it’s alright if I don’t sleep with you.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“That’s why I like to listen to Schubert while I’m driving. Like I said, it’s because all the performances are imperfect. A… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you really want to know something, you have to be willing to pay the price. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you try to use your head to think about things, people don't want to have anything to do with you — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you want everything to be nice and straight all the time, then go live in a world made with a triungular… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I'm talking to people, I always want… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What I'd like to be is a unique writer who's different from everybody else. I want to be a writer who tells… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When the fire goes out, you'll start feeling the cold. You'll wake up whether you want to or not. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Why do I act like this, agreeing when I really disagree, letting people force me to do things I don't want to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I can be hurt, you know. I can get as exhausted as anybody else. I can feel so bad I want to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The best point of my novels, I think, is their humor. I want to keep many my works humorous. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Young people these days don't trust anything at all. They want to be free. — 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
