Quote by Haruki Murakami Download Open image ““About half the people in the world dislike their own name.”” — Haruki Murakami ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“And I didn't stop hating my name until many years later, when I realized that it wasn't a name to be ashamed of, but… — Reyna Grande Copy Share Image
“So many people make a name nowadays, that it is more distinguished to remain in obscurity.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Names are not of nearly as much import as people like to suppose.” — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
“I've found we hate most in others what we can't stand about ourselves.” — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
“Everyone should know what it is like to be called by name. By the name of the unique person one is at heart.” — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“Majority of people prefer a good name to a bad name, but to me, anyone can call me anything, as long as it is… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“It strikes me as a unique form of power to say your own name when you know that everyone in the room, everyone in… — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
“Names are important as they tell you a great deal about a person. I’ve had more names than anyone has a right to.” — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“There’s so much hate in this world, but the most despicable are those who find themselves entitled to hate because of mass opinion.” — Radhika Mundra 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 Image
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“Intelligent teenage girls were often instinctively theatrical, purposely eccentric, mouthing highly suggestive words to confuse people.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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 seemd a kind of fiction, or vice versa. Either way, no matter how hard you try to put everything neatly into shape, the context wanders this way and that, until finally the context isn't even there… — 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 Image
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 Image
“that one of our problems was our inability to recognize and accept our own deformities” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“When I look back at myself at age twenty, what I remember most is being alone and lonely. I had no girlfriend to warm my body or my soul, no friends I could open up to. No clue what I should do every day, no vision for the future. For the most part, I remained hidden away, deep within myself.… — 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 Image
“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 same time taking a long-range view, scanning the scenery as far ahead as I can. I am, after all, a long distance runner. My time, the rank I attain, my outward appearance - all of these… — 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 there. But before I could say anything, she suddenly asked me to hold her. 'Why?' I asked, caught off guard. 'To charge my batteries,' she said. 'Charge your batteries?' 'My body has run out of electricity.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
