Japan Quote by Christopher Barzak

“I had Japanese once. A business man I had run into in New York ... but that's not what he meant.”

— L.M. DeWalt

“There was something strangely compelling about a Japanese guy with lamb-chop sideburns and a voice so shrill you could be forgiven for thinking his…

— Jamie Holoran

“Different cultures and all that, but it’s true what they say about the Japanese being undemonstrative.”

— Donna Tartt

“I could soon see outlines of people in the water in the distance, all of them covered in oil. I had no way to…

— Alistair Urquhart

“As much as I'd wanted to stay in Japan to be with him, the real reason was that I wanted control of my life.…

— Amanda Sun

“The whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Not about the Japanese, but about moments of perfection. commit it to memory and make good use of it.”

— Melina Marchetta

“Even bigger than Japan is the inside of your head.”

— Natsume Soseki

“I don’t know anything about Japanese business or Japanese culture. Apart from sushi.”

— Sophie Kinsella

“The basic stupidity of modern Japan is that we’ve learned absolutely nothing from our contact with other Asian peoples.”

— Haruki Murakami

“I'd been very influenced by what I'd seen in Japan. Part of what I greatly admired there - and part of what we were…

— Walter Isaacson

“Reading about Japan in the West is often like looking at a funhouse mirror through a kaleidoscope.”

— Nick Mamatas