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 to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language. — 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
If you really want to know something, you have to be willing to pay the price. — 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
“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
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
That's wrong," she declared. "Everyone must have one thing that they can excel at. It's just a matter of drawing it out,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Don't let thoughts of me hold you back. Just do what you want to do. Otherwise, I might end up taking you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Not that running away's going to solve everything. I don't want to rain on your parade or anything, but I wouldn't count… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you might strike out, but that tenth time,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There are three ways you can get along with a girl: one, shut up and listen to what she has to say;… — 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
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
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
All over the world people have developed their own ideas about what's right and wrong in life, but so long as you… — 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
Only people who have been discriminated against can really know how much it hurts. Each person feels the pain in his own… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Listen. I may not be much, but I'm all I've got. Maybe you need a magnifying glass to find my face in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
And, well, mine are kind of on the heavy side anyway. The first day or two, I don't want to do ANYTHING.… — 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
“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
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
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
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
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
The best point of my novels, I think, is their humor. I want to keep many my works humorous. — 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
Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest. — 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
