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Writer Quotes by Haruki Murakami
- Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all…
- You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you…
- 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'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.
- I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle.…
- I'm a writer, not a professional runner. It's fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.
- George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don't want to write messages. I want to write good stories.…
- I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at a desk for hours a day,…
- I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to…
- 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…
- Age certainly hadn't conferred any smarts on me. Character maybe, but mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russian writers have a…
- There's not much you can do about time - it just keeps on passing. But experience? Don't tell me that. I'm not proud of it,…
- The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but I had no such…
- You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough.
- I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.
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