Haruki Murakami Quotes
I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to prove that I could write a realistic book.
Quotes to Explore
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So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.
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Wherever I am, I take books, not novels.
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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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I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
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There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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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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My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever.
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Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances.
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I just feel like I have a lot to prove.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer.
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The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
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Maybe that is what marriage is: Two people creating a cult together.
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If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.
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The president does have a significant negative power, bigger than the Senate upper house. It is harder to overrule the president’s veto than to approve a law which has been rejected by the higher chamber. This would lead to a continuous conflict and the inability to sort out many important issues.
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We human beings cause monstrous conditions, but precisely because we cause them we soon learn to adapt ourselves to them. Only if we become such that we can no longer adapt ourselves, only if, deep inside, we rebel against every kind of evil, will we be able to put a stop to it. ... while everything within us does not yet scream out in protest, so long will we find ways of adapting ourselves, and the horrors will continue.
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I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to prove that I could write a realistic book.
