"It's just like sex; when [a book is]……" — Haruki Murakami

"It's just like sex; when [a book is] finished, it's finished."

— Haruki Murakami

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1,044 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami has 1,044 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

You're not a kid anymore. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you…
I tell you, Mr. Okada, a cold beer at the end of the day is the best thing life has…
Colours shone with exceptional clarity in the rain. The ground was a deep black, the pine branches a brilliant green,…
People sometimes sneer at those who run every day, claiming they'll go to any length to live longer. But don't…
Even if there were two of me, I still couldn't do all that has to be done. No matter what,…
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
I write weird stories. I don't know why I like weirdness so much ... But when I write, I write…
When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's…
Now all you can do is wait. It must be hard for you, but there is a right time for…
Reality's just the accumulation of ominous prophecies come to life. All you have to do is open a newspaper on…
Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my…
Even when I ran my bar I followed the same policy. A lot of customers came to the bar. If…

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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