Haruki Murakami Quotes

When a writer develops a story, he is confronted with a poison that is inside him. If you don't have that poison, your story will be boring and uninspired. It's like fugu: The flesh of the pufferfish is extremely tasty, but the roe, the liver, the heart can be lethally toxic.

Haruki Murakami

• Writer
• Poison
• Develops
• Toxic
• Uninspired

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• What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?

  

  Rachel Cusk
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• In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• I am not an autobiographical writer.

  

  Yann Martel
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• I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.

  

  Hannah Kent
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• Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.

  

  Fran Drescher
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• If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
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• A writer has to live with a sense of honor.

  

  Irwin Shaw
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• It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
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• Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
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• I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.

  

  P. J. Harvey
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• When you've finished reading every last thing by a famous writer, literary convention holds that you move on to his or her letters, the DVD extras peddled by publishers.

  

  Karan Mahajan
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• There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

  

  Harlan Coben
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• If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.

  

  Earl Hamner, Jr.
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• Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing.

  

  Ice Cube
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• I'm a very conceptual writer.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
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• When somebody asks what I do, I guess I say 'writer' first.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • First
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• I haven't given any thought to collaborating with my sisters. It would be great fun. My daughter Molly is a wonderful writer - someday I'd love to collaborate with her.

  

  Hallie Ephron
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• I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any artist, any musician, can write without regret, so I don't think perhaps it's even particularly Southern.

  

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• Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It's what makes America great.

  

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• I'm grounded in who I am, and I am a confident black man. A confident, Nigerian, black, chocolate man. I'm proud of my heritage, and no man can take that away from me.

  

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• The secret of life is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.

  

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• Keep working on a plan. Make no little plans. Make the biggest plan you can think of and spend the rest of your life carrying it out.

  

  Harry S Truman
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• Aubade THE lark now leaves his wat'ry nest, And climbing shakes his dewy wings. He takes this window for the East, And to implore your light he sings- Awake, awake! the morn will never rise Till she can dress her beauty at your eyes. The merchant bows unto the seaman's star, The ploughman from the sun his season takes, But still the lover wonders what they are Who look for day before his mistress wakes. Awake, awake! break thro' your veils of lawn! Then draw your curtains, and begin the dawn!

  

  William Davenant
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• When a writer develops a story, he is confronted with a poison that is inside him. If you don't have that poison, your story will be boring and uninspired. It's like fugu: The flesh of the pufferfish is extremely tasty, but the roe, the liver, the heart can be lethally toxic.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Writer
  • Poison
  • Develops