Haruki Murakami Quotes
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I never made any plan before writing, however I succeeded. I enjoyed writing with excitement ,"what happen on the next page?"
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Any explanation or logic that explains everything so easily has a hidden trap in it. I'm speaking from experience. Somebody once said if it's something a single book can explain, it's not worth having explained. What I mean is don't leap to any conclusions.
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The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.
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I'm all alone, but I'm not lonely.
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What the world needs is a set villain that people can point at and say, “It’s all your fault!
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When I write a novel I put into play all the information inside me. It might be Japanese information or it might be Western; I don't draw a distinction between the two.
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I'd made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a world it might be, this was it.
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My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.
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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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A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die.
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I find myself thinking about my ongoing existence as a human being and the path that lies ahead of me. Though of course these thoughts lead to but one place - death.
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So the fact that I’m me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.
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What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me.
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Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge.
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My imagination is a kind of animal. So what I do is keep it alive.
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You can have tons of talent, but it won't necessarily keep you fed. If you have sharp instincts, through, you'll never go hungry.
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But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o'clock in the morning.
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That was the rule. Break one of my rules once, and I’m bound to break many more.
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The worst thoughts usually strike in the dead of the night.
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Everyone may be ordinary, but they're not normal.
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Like flowers scattered in a storm, a man's life is a long farewell.
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In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life.
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If you think about it, an unfair society is a society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit.
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My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year.