Haruki Murakami Quotes
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I go by the gut. I might not appear to have any talent but I've got plenty of gut instinct.
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Love with complications. Scenery was the last thing on my mind.
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No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they owe you. I don't like to owe anybody anything, so I keep to myself as much on the lending side as I can.
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If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.
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Sometimes when I'm with you, I remember things I lost when I was your age. Like I remember the sound of the rain and the smell of the wind.
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Whoa!" he says with a smile. The wrinkles at the corners of his eyes deepen. "Chicken salad a la George Orwell!
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But what seems like a reasonable distance to one person might feel too far to somebody else.
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As long as you have the courage to admit mistakes, things can be turned around.
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To keep on going, you have to keep up the rhythm.
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She was hearing everything that went on in his heart, like a person who can trace a map with his fingertip and conjure up vivid, living scenery.
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That’s what love’s all about. You’re the only one having those wonderful feelings, but you have to go it alone as you wander through the dark your mind and body have to bear it all. All by yourself.
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If I'm going to merely ramble, maybe I should just snuggle under the warm covers, think of Miu, and play with myself.
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For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured. At least by the person who's waiting.
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I can't build a simple shelf. I have no idea how to change an oil filter on a car. I can't even stick a stamp on an envelope straight. And I'm always dialling the wrong number. But I have come up with a few original cocktails that people seem to like.
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How much do you love me?' Midori asked. 'Enough to melt all the tigers in the world to butter,' I said.
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We were young, and we had no need for prophecies. Just living was itself an act of prophecy.
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Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.
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In Japan, the writers have made up a literary community, a circle, a society. I think 90 percent of Japan's writers live in Tokyo. Naturally, they make a community. There are groups and customs, and so they are tied up in a way.
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The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues. ... But we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.
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Every day I go to my study and sit at my desk and put the computer on. At that moment, I have to open the door. It's a big, heavy door. You have to go into the Other Room. Metaphorically, of course. And you have to come back to this side of the room. And you have to shut the door.
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Each of us possesses a tangible living soul. The system has no such thing. We must not allow the system to exploit us.
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Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away.
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Such wounds to the heart will probably never heal. But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.
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It's true that at the time I was fond of Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and it was from them that I learned about this kind of simple, swift-paced style, but the main reason for the style of my first novel is that I simply did not have the time to write sustained prose.