Haruki Murakami Quotes
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It's all matter of attitude. You could let a lot of things bother you if you wanted to But it's pretty much the same anywhere you go, you can manage.
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People sometimes sneer at those who run every day, claiming they'll go to any length to live longer. But don't think that's the reason most people run. Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest.
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Some things, you know, if you say them, it makes them not true?
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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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This uneasiness comes over me from time to time, and I feel as if I've somehow been pieced together from two different puzzles.
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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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Once you let yourself grow close to someone, cutting the ties could be painful.
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It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not real friendship.
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As long as I was alive, I was something. That was just how it was. But somewhere along the way it all changed. Living turned me into nothing.
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What happens when people open their hearts?... They get better.
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All things in my novels are real for me. Some western critics said that Garcia Marquez's novels are magic realism. However, I believe that Marquez must have experienced everything in his novels.
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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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It seems to me, though, that you always understand very well what I can't say very well. Trouble is I end up being even worse at saying things well.
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Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off.
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You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get.
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Everyone may be ordinary, but they're not normal.
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When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. ‘Mythomania’ is the word for it.
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Judging the mistakes of strangers is an easy thing to do - and it feels pretty good.
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The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words.
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Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.
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My imagination is a kind of animal. So what I do is keep it alive.
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Writing is fun - at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That's easy to manage.
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If I used being busy as an excuse not to run, I'd never run again. I have only a few reasons to keep on running, and a truckload of them to quit.
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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?"