Books Quote by Utada Hikaru

I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

— Haruki Murakami

Sometimes I miss out the morning's painting session and instead study my Japanese books in the open.

— Gustav Klimt

I'm just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.

— Grimes

What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing.

— Robert Bly

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

I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to…

— Lafcadio Hearn

This is almost the most famous story The last samurai - Samurai story - in Japan.

— Hiroyuki Sanada

Everything I saw in Japan was a story to me.

— Amy Chozick

It's true that I pick up many ideas from different Japanese things.

— Takashi Murakami

I've always been fascinated by Japanese culture.

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

I like to read the news, but when I pull up a Japanese site, and an article comes up with my face, I never…

— Ichiro Suzuki

I am an admirer of haiku, and I'm a great admirer of Japanese literature in general.

— Richard Flanagan