Haruki Murakami, 色彩を持たない多崎つくると、彼の巡礼の年 Quotes
In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.
It doesn’t matter how old I get, but as long as I continue to live I’ll always discover something new about myself.
I write weird stories. I don't know why I like weirdness so much ... But when I write, I write weird. That's very strange. When I'm getting more and more serious, I'm getting more and more weird.
If I choose to write about sheep, it's just because I happened to write about sheep. There is no deep significance.
He sometimes wondered if she had become involved with him just so that she could cry in someone's arms. Maybe she can't cry alone, and that's why she needs me.
That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution
I would never see her again, except in memory. She was here, and now she's gone. There is no middle ground. Probably is a word that you may find south of the border. But never, ever west of the sun.
My father always told me: 'Give somebody a hand and he'll take an arm.
I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind that men feel towards their imagination. (from Super-frog Saves Tokyo)
Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.
You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.
Good style happens in one of two ways: the writer either has an inborn talent or is willing to work herself to death to get it.
Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart.
People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring.
It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical
The rain that fell on the city runs down the dark gutters and empties into the sea without even soaking the ground
Love can rebuild the world, they say, so everything's possible when it comes to love.
Most of the psychological differences between men and women seem to come from differences in their reproductive system
What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me.
Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to fool ourselves into thinking that time is our size, but it really goes on and on.
The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but I had no such ambition. There was nothing I wanted to be.
When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want.
It is very simple, actually. It is because you and Tengo were so powerfully drawn to each other.
No matter what the situation may be, I still take pleasure in witnessing the joy of others.
Sheep hurt my father, and through my father, sheep have also hurt me.
The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older.
Suicides? Heart attacks? The papers didn't seem interested. The world was full of ways to die, too many to cover. Newsworthy deaths had to be exceptional. Most people go unobserved.
Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us.
I closed my eyes and tried to sleep. But it was not until much later that I was able to get any real sleep. In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment.
Have your dream...What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand)
I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind.
Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end.
You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.
I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.
I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.
Dreaming is the day job of novelists, but sharing our dreams is a still more important task for us. We cannot be novelists without this sense of sharing something.
I love pop culture -- the Rolling Stones, the Doors, David Lynch, things like that. That's why I said I don't like elitism.
I never trust people with no appetite. It's like they're always holding something back on you.
It was a small room with dim light coming in the window, reminiscent of old Polish films.
Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start- the way a map that shows too much can sometimes be useless.
That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way.
When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them.