I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn't have to write for my living. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Most people probably didn't think I'd make it as a professional writer. But I couldn't follow their advice.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair. — 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 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
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
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
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
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
“Your readers have seen a sky with one moon in it any number of times, right? But I doubt they've seen a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
My short stories are like soft shadows I have set out in the world, faint footprints I have left. I remember exactly… — 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
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
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
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 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
“My head is like some ridiculous barn packed full of stuff I want to write about,” she said. “Images, scenes, snatches of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Now a narrative is a story, not logic, nor ethics, nor philosophy. It is a dream you keep having, whether you realize… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Most of what I know about writing I’ve learned through running every day. These are practical, physical lessons. How much can I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It's difficult to teach how to write novels, but teaching swimming is just as hard.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose). — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The good thing about writing book is that you can dream while you are awake... — 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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