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Something Quotes by Haruki Murakami
- Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don't…
- Gazing at the rain, I consider what it means to belong, to become part of something. To have someone cry for me.
- Dreaming is the day job of novelists, but sharing our dreams is a still more important task for us. We cannot be novelists without this…
- Fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts.…
- If she did experience sex-or something close to it-in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than…
- I try not to think about anything special while running. As a matter of fact, I usually run with my mind empty. However, when I…
- For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I'm still awake. I can continue yesterday's…
- My heroes don't have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don't know how, so they talk to themselves.
- If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.
- Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing…
- I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something.
- I'm not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years.
- I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.
- For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second…
- I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It's a…
- Sometimes I wonder why I'm a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became…
- Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to sleep through it. But even if you go to…
- On any given day, something claims our attention. Anything at all, inconsequential things. A rosebud, a misplaced hat, that sweater we liked as a child,…
- Those five fingers and that palm were like a display case crammed full of everything I wanted to know--and everything I had to know. By…
- Kumiko and I felt something for each other from the beginning. It was not one of those strong, impulsive feelings that can hit two people…
- Oshima's silent for a time as he gazes at the forest, eyes narrowed. Birds are flitting from one branch to the next. His hands are…
- The sun sliced through the windshield, sealing me in light. I closed my eyes and felt the warmth on my eyelids. Sunlight traveled a long…
- Me, I've seen 45 years, and I've only figured out one thing. That's this: if a person would just make the effort, there's something to…
- I'm in no position to hand down any advice," he said, "but there's a rule I follow when I don't know what to do." "A…
- No mistake about it. Ice is cold; roses are red; I'm in love. And this love is about to carry me off somewhere. The current's…
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