I never plan. I never know what the next page is going to be… But that's the fun of writing a novel… — 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 closed my own jazz bar so I could be a man who can write novels as I like. I was pleased… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Writing talent is similar to the art of chatting up a girl. You can improve to a certain degree through practice, but… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“If u only read the books that everyone's reading, you can think what everyone else is thinking.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
To be able to talk to your heart’s content about a book you like with someone who feels the same way about… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You could be anybody when you're writing. That's the reason that I'm writing: to be anybody. You can put your feet in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Since I'm a novelist I'm the opposite of you - I believe that what's most important is what cannot be measured. I'm… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There's not much you can do about time - it just keeps on passing. But experience? Don't tell me that. I'm not… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder why I'm a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When a writer develops a story, he is confronted with a poison that is inside him. If you don't have that poison,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Whenever I write a novel, I have a strong sense that I am doing something I was unable to do before. With… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It's little strange, perhaps, to make this claim at such a late date, but Gatsby really is an outstanding novel. I never… — 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
“True, there are those in our league who take even less time. But they don't do any research. They do a handful… — 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
It is however, difficult to make your narratives relative by yourself. A novelists' work is to provide models to make your narratives… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Writing, to me, is the meaning of life. My life became something special because of writing. My desk is for me what… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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
Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in school, where… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence, enjoying the style. If I don't enjoy the writing, I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Novelists are a special breed. They cannot genuinely trust anything they have not seen with their own eyes or touched with their… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If I choose to write about sheep, it's just because I happened to write about sheep. There is no deep significance. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I had been given a wonderful opportunity to be a novelist — a chance you just don't get every day.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“If writers only wrote about things everybody knew, what the hell would be the point of writing?” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Writing things was important, wasn’t it?” Nakata asked. “Yes, it was. The process of writing was important. Even though the finished product… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Those people digging around in the refrigerator at 3am, those are the only people I can write for. And that, is me.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I don't know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like… — 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
Perhaps I'm just too painstaking a type of person, but I can't grasp much of anything without putting down my thoughts 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
