Haruki Murakami Quotes
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No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant.
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My shadow is only half of what it should be." "Everyone has their shortcomings.
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Don't let thoughts of me hold you back. Just do what you want to do. Otherwise, I might end up taking you with me, and that is the one thing I don't want to do. I don't want to interfere with your life.
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I think of myself as more the non-turn-on type. so when I do get turned on, I don’t trust it, I have to investigate the source.
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They put up with such strenuous training, and where did their thoughts, their hopes and dreams, disappear to? When people pass away, do their thoughts just vanish?
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There are lots of things we never understand, no matter how many years we put on, no matter how much experience we accumulate.
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Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves.
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Whenever I get into something, I shut out everything else.
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I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works.
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Has the dark shadow really disappeared? Or is it inside me, concealed, waiting for its chance to reappear? Like a clever thief hidden inside a house, breathing quietly, waiting until everyone’s asleep. I have looked deep inside myself, trying to detect something that might be there. But just as our consciousness is a maze, so too is our body. Everywhere you turn there’s darkness, and a blind spot. Everywhere you find silent hints, everywhere a surprise is waiting for you.
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And as the years have passed, the time has grown longer. The sad truth is that what I could recall in five seconds all too needed ten, then thirty, then a full minute - like shadows lengthening at dusk. Someday, I suppose, the shadows will be swallowed up in darkness.
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I can't imagine how American readers will react to a novel, but if the story is appealing it doesn't matter much if you don't catch all the detail. I'm not too familiar with the geography of nineteenth century London, for instance, but I still enjoy reading Dickens.
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I always write my novels with music. I don't listened to the music seriously. Music seems to encourage me.
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But still," Ayumi said, "it seems to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness." "You may be right," Aomame said, "But it's too late to trade it in for another one.
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The best point of my novels, I think, is their humor. I want to keep many my works humorous.
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When I'm running I don't have to talk to anybody and don't have to listen to anybody. This is a part of my day I can't do without.
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It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really work at being happy you can do it up to a point. But anything more than that you can't. Anything more than that is luck.
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I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.
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People with dark souls have nothing but dark dreams. People with really dark souls do nothing but dream.
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The fresh smell of coffee soon wafted through the apartment, the smell that separates night from day.
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Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.
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Tengo could hardly believe it-- that in this frantic, labyrinth-like world, two people's hearts-- a boy's and a girl's-- could be connected, unchanged, even though they hadn't seen each other for twenty years.
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Does G get angry because it follows F in the alphabet? Does page 68 in a book start a revolution because it follows 67?
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It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.