Books Quote by Haruki Murakami

The distinction between East and West is that the Western novel is very organized, it's very logical, there's a logical progression, there's a chronological…

— Donald Richie

Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.

— Eric Rohmer

I haven't read a lot of Westerns. But I wrote a Western. The influences were all cinematic.

— Patrick deWitt

Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words.

— Amos Oz

Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can tell any…

— Lawrence Kasdan

For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.

— Julianna Baggott

The more readings a novel has, even contradictory, the better. In journalism, you talk about what you know; you have provided yourself with records,…

— Rosa Montero

I find Japanese books quite baffling when I read them in translation. It's only with Haruki Murakami that I find Japanse fiction that I…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I have read all my novels that were translated into English. Reading my novels is enjoyable because I forget almost all the content in…

— Haruki Murakami