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

  

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• I am not an autobiographical writer.

  

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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.

  

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

  

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

  

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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.

  

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• Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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

  

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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.

  

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• I'm a very conceptual writer.

  

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• When somebody asks what I do, I guess I say 'writer' 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.

  

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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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• My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever.

  

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• I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.

  

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• Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

  

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• I view it as one of the greatest crimes to shadow the minds of the young with these gloomy superstitions, and with fears of the unknown and the unknowable to poison all their joy in life.

  

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• For a moment the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face; her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I listened - then the glow faded, each light deserting her with lingering regret, like children leaving a pleasant street at dusk.

  

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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