The-wind-up-bird-chronicle Quote by Haruki Murakami

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

If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.

— Haruki Murakami

“The sad truth is that what I could recall in five seconds all too soon needed ten, then thirty, thena full minute...”

— Haruki Murakami

“Intelligent teenage girls were often instinctively theatrical, purposely eccentric, mouthing highly suggestive words to confuse people.”

— Haruki Murakami

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…

— Haruki Murakami

The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow.

— Haruki Murakami

If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage

— Haruki Murakami

“that one of our problems was our inability to recognize and accept our own deformities”

— Haruki Murakami

“When I look back at myself at age twenty, what I remember most is being alone and lonely. I had no girlfriend to warm…

— Haruki Murakami

“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

“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…

— Haruki Murakami

“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…

— Haruki Murakami