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.

  

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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.

  

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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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  • Music
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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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  • 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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• One woman's poise is another woman's poison.

  

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• I've got a deep dark suspicion that pretty soon we should start looking around for another planet for ourselves.

  

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• When we are playing [games], we are stretching our emotional expressive ranges, loosening up our biochemical flow of information, getting unstuck, and healing our feelings.

  

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• I have blood from Dutch and Norwegian.

  

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• At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a yes.

  

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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