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
It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes. — 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
Suicides? Heart attacks? The papers didn't seem interested. The world was full of ways to die, too many to cover. Newsworthy deaths… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
All of us are imperfect human beings living in an imperfect world. — 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
People lose fifty million skin cells every day. The cells get scraped off and turn into invisible dust, and disappear into the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The world would be a pretty dull place if it were made up only of the first-rate, right? — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It's a terrible thing when a person dies, whatever the circumstances. A hole opens up in the world, and we need to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Then I noticed that my shadow was crying too, shedding clear, sharp shadow tears. Have you ever seen the shadows of tears,… — 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
I laughed. “You’re too young to be so … pessimistic,” I said, using the English word. “Pessi-what?” “Pessimistic. It means looking only… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
This was something sure to be crammed full of warm secrets, like an antique clock built when peace filled the world. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I think that my job is to observe people and the world, and not to judge them. I always hope to position… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Probably." "Again with the probablys." "A world full of probablys," she said. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Overhead, the two moons worked together to bathe the world in a strange light. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Ever since that happened to me, I haven't been able to give myself to anyone in this world. — 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
Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'm going to take you out of here ... I'm going to take you home, to the world where you belong, where… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
From the girl who sat before me now...surged a fresh and physical life force. She was like a small animal that has… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The facts and techniques or whatever they teach you in class isn't going to be veryuseful in the real world, that's for… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Whenever an occasion arose in which she needed an opinion on something in the wider world, she borrowed her husband's. If this… — 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
