Circles Quote by Haruki Murakami

“We hope that general readers with an interest in Japan will find in these accounts of fieldwork a wide spectrum of illustrations of the…

— Theodore C. Bestor

As a writer one doesn’t belong anywhere. Fiction writers, I think, are even more outside the pale, necessarily on the edge of society. Because…

— William Trevor

Tokyo is like the New York of Asia. Although the people there are all basically from Japan, they celebrate what they like about various…

— Pharrell Williams

I think it is one of the common themes for many Japanese people to choose where to live: Tokyo or their hometown.

— Makoto Shinkai

Japan is a wonderful country, a strange mixture of ancient mystique and cyberpunk saturation. It's a monolith of society's achievements, yet maintains a foothold…

— Corey Taylor

If you go to Tokyo, I think it becomes very obvious that there's this almost seamless mixture of popular culture and Japanese traditional culture.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Maybe Japan itself is a little similar in that a lot of young people seem to have a little knowledge but not too much…

— Hiroshi Fujiwara

Maybe half a dozen think they are a community, but, in general terms, I think English writers tend to face outwards, away from each…

— William Golding

Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don't think it will.…

— Haruki Murakami

“Japan is the first nation in the world to accord 'comic books'--originally a 'humorous' form of entertainment mainly for young people--nearly the same social…

— frederik l. schodt

Japan is very cosmopolitan - it values its origins, but a world view hovers above this narrow perspective. The interest of the Japanese in…

— F. Sionil Jose

Writers are a loosely knit community - community is an overstated word. Writers don't see each other very much.

— Alan Lightman