A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me awake… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I get irritated, I get upset. Especially when I'm in a hurry. But I see it all as part of our training.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Things pass us by. Nobody can catch them. That's the way we live our lives. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When you see runners in town is easy to distinguish beginners from veterans. The ones panting are beginners; the ones with quiet,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Life is so uncertain: you never know what could happen. One way to deal with that is to keep your pajamas washed. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I read Naoko's letter again and again, and each time I read it I would be filled with the same unbearable sadness… — 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
Age certainly hadn't conferred any smarts on me. Character maybe, but mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russian… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by bit I raise… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I want to believe you, but if that's true, I just don't get it. Why does loving somebody mean you have to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Holding this soft, small living creature in my lap this way, though, and seeing how it slept with complete trust in me,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no matter what you do,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Kafka is one of my very favorite writers. Kafka's fictional world is already so complete that trying to follow in his steps… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
She gave me this look – she might have been watching from a lifeboat as the ship went down. Or maybe it… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be. — 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
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
If, as the dowager had said, we are nothing but gene carriers, why do so many of us have to lead such… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I don't think jealousy has much of a connection with real, objective conditions. Like if you're fortunate you're not jealous, but if… — 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
