Haruki Murakami Quotes

I've run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the scenery along the route and the warmth of the people's support. I feel happier every time I enter this marathon.
Haruki Murakami

Time, Best, Beautiful

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.
Haruki Murakami

Age, Sympathy, Live

For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I'm still awake. I can continue yesterday's dream today, something you can't normally do in everyday life.
Haruki Murakami

Life, Today, Writing

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.
Haruki Murakami

Live, Everything, Nobody

My heroes don't have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don't know how, so they talk to themselves.
Haruki Murakami

Special, Talk, Tell

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.
Haruki Murakami

Life, Freedom, Values

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished.
Haruki Murakami

Live, Book, Die

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.
Haruki Murakami

Hard, Individual, Japan

You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored. They are disappointed. They are expecting a more dynamic, creative, artistic thing to say. What I want to say is: you have to be practical.
Haruki Murakami

Time, Bored, Creative

I get up early in the morning, 4 o'clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that's enough. In the afternoon, I run.
Haruki Murakami

Morning, Enough, After

I have always liked running, so it wasn't particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you need is a pair of running shoes and you can do it anywhere. It does not require anybody to do it with, and so I found the sport perfectly fits me as a person who tends to be independent and individualistic.
Haruki Murakami

Person, Difficult, Found

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.
Haruki Murakami

Life, Time, Famous

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven't belonged to any company or any system. It isn't easy to live like this in Japan.
Haruki Murakami

Live, Easy, Since

I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.
Haruki Murakami

War, Support, Writer

Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy.
Haruki Murakami

Boring, Dark, Unhappy

Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.
Haruki Murakami

Movies, Small, High

A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.
Haruki Murakami

Write, Maybe, Lifetime

As a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday's dream. Because it is a dream, there are so many contradictions and I have to adjust them to make the story work. But, in principle, the original dream does not change.
Haruki Murakami

Change, Work, Dream

Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all the time late into the night. I was very excited when I started making a living out of my writing, and I decided, 'I will live in nothing but an absolutely healthy way.'
Haruki Murakami

Time, Live, Nothing

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.
Haruki Murakami

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.
Haruki Murakami

Music, Happy, Confidence

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.
Haruki Murakami

Study, Put, Moment

Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.
Haruki Murakami

Good, History, War

I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something.
Haruki Murakami

Country, Worrying, Novelist

I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at a desk for hours a day, without getting some exercise you'd quickly get out of shape and gain weight, I figured.
Haruki Murakami

After, Getting, Everyday

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Biography

Nationality: Japanese

Type: Writer

Born: January 12, 1949

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