Japanese Quote by Melina Marchetta

“See, this is why you should never try to be PERFECT. It ruins your life. And then it KILLS you. But try telling that…

— Ann Writes

“Different cultures and all that, but it’s true what they say about the Japanese being undemonstrative.”

— Donna Tartt

“Japan." Not about the Japanese, but about moments of perfection. Commit it to memory and make good use of it. Because if I come…

— Melina Marchetta

“They understood things of the spirit in Japan. They disembowelled themselves when anything went wrong.”

— Sylvia Plath

“And so I told him how living in Japan would give him a leisure no mere tourist has, to know the rhythms of the…

— Donna George Storey

“Tokyo was a place you could quite happily exist alone and be self-contained. It seemed to promise that it was better to be by…

— Olivia Sudjic

“It’s strange, but when I have to speak in front of an audience, I find it more comfortable to use my far-from-perfect English than…

— Haruki Murakami

“I think part of your success lies in the shock of recognition- or as the Japanese might say, 'the unexpected recognition of the faithful…

— Charles J. Shields

“I'd been very influenced by what I'd seen in Japan. Part of what I greatly admired there - and part of what we were…

— Walter Isaacson

“I don’t know anything about Japanese business or Japanese culture. Apart from sushi.”

— Sophie Kinsella

“My Japanese isn’t much better today, but at least now I appreciate my duality more than when I was a punk kid.”

— Gil Asakawa

“The quintessential Japanese balance, I thought: to surrender all of yourself to an illusion, and yet somewhere, in some part of yourself, to know…

— Pico Iyer