Haruki Murakami Quotes
Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all the time late into the night. I was very excited when I started making a living out of my writing, and I decided, 'I will live in nothing but an absolutely healthy way.'
Haruki Murakami
Quotes to Explore
Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
Karin Slaughter
You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.
Ian Mcewan
I think we all have our own personality, unique and distinctive, and at the same time, I think that our own unique and distinctive personality blends with the wind, with the footsteps in the street, with the noises around the corner, and with the silence of memory, which is the great producer of ghosts.
Octavio Paz
In 1953, Mom and Dad, living in Toronto, discovered, to their shock, that Mom was expecting. I was born in June 1954. My parents, thrilled, showered me with love.
Dan Hill
Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
Ida Lupino
I'm not politically correct.
Kary Mullis
I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
Edmund White
When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
Fran Lebowitz
Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.
Salman Rushdie
I don't believe in murder.
Kabir Bedi
Things are fluid in this world, and if you don't remain fluid, you get lost in the sauce.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
Whether you're a Twitter follower, a YouTube subscriber or a Facebook friend, natural social instinct is to collect people and to not kind of see them later. But unfortunately, with social media, you collect them and they're in your life, whether you really want them or not.
Felicia Day
