Writing is fun - at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russians have a way with aphorisms. They probably spend all winter thinking… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I generally concentrate on work for three or four hours every morning. I sit at my desk and focus totally on what… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“That's how it is with art. Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning are incapable of… — 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
“No matter how much enthusiasm and effort you put into writing, if you totally lack literary talent you can forget about being… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Stories lie deep in our souls. Stories lie so deep at the bottom of our hearts that they can bring people together… — 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
Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Writing novels is much the same. You gather up bones and make your gate, but no matter how wonderful the gate might… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Tengo did not know for certain whether he wanted to be a professional novelist, nor was he sure he had the talent… — 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
It's physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Sometimes I find it too hot to run, and sometimes too cold. Or too cloudy. But I still go running. I know… — 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
Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in… — 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 find writing novels a challenge, writing stories a joy. If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I'm still awake. I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I never made any plan before writing, however I succeeded. I enjoyed writing with excitement ,"what happen on the next page?" — 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
Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Good style happens in one of two ways: the writer either has an inborn talent or is willing to work herself to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Myths are the prototype for all stories. When we write a story on our own it can't help but link up with… — 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
Running taught me to have faith in my skills as a writer. I learned how much I can demand of myself, when… — 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
When I write a novel I put into play all the information inside me. It might be Japanese information or it might… — 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
When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could… — 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
I have no idea! I have been writing for 35 years and from the beginning up to now the situation's almost the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at a desk for… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“What's crucial is whether your writing attains the standards you've set for yourself. (...) Basically a writer has a quiet, inner motivation,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a… — 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
It's true that at the time I was fond of Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and it was from them that I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I was enjoying myself writing, because I don't know what's going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I wrote a huge number of letters that spring: one a week to Naoko, several to Reiko, and several more to Midori.… — 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
“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 Image
“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 Image
“You let something out of the bag before yourself knew what it was all about” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
