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Story Quotes by Haruki Murakami
- It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
- When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.
- As a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday's dream. Because it…
- Strange and mysterious things, though, aren't they - earthquakes? We take it for granted that the earth beneath our feet is solid and stationary. We…
- It's a dark, cool, quiet place. A basement in your soul. And that place can sometimes be dangerous to the human mind. I can open…
- That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and…
- And her sleep was too long and deep for that:so deep that she left her normal reality behind.
- A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me awake and shout, 'Hey,this…
- Someone who can search for something is happy. Searching gives a meaning to life. Nowadays it’s not so easy to find something you might be…
- No matter how clear things might become in the forest of story, there was never a clear-cut solution, as there was in math. The role…
- I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights. Slowly, like a…
- According to Chekhov," Tamaru said, rising from his chair, "once a gun appears in a story, it has to be fired." "Meaning what?" "Meaning, don't…
- A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on this side with…
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- The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find… — David Attenborough
- Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story… — Chinua Achebe
- People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own… — Chinua Achebe
- You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story that hasn't come out yet.… — Margaret Atwood
- Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree;… — Jane Austen
- Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our… — Paul Auster
- We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves,… — Paul Auster
- Comedy, drama, Westerns, sci-fi... it's all fine if the story's compelling and the character is interesting to me. I do like action… — Jensen Ackles