Haruki Murakami Quotes

Many people tell me that they don 't know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That's good.
Haruki Murakami

Good, Happy, Dark

Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from feelings of isolation. I think that is one reason why young readers support my work.
Haruki Murakami

Work, Feelings, Why

Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.
Haruki Murakami

Morning, Writing, Through

Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.
Haruki Murakami

Men, Young, Big

My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.
Haruki Murakami

War, Father, Wanted

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.
Haruki Murakami

Time, Write, Point

Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don't think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.
Haruki Murakami

Time, Society, America

Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don't need a partner to go running, you don't need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers.
Haruki Murakami

Sports, Find, Place

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.
Haruki Murakami

Writing, Perfect, Despair

When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say.
Haruki Murakami

Writing, Real, Everything

When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.
Haruki Murakami

Wait, Start, Write

When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese.
Haruki Murakami

Great, Feeling, Thought

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.
Haruki Murakami

Age, Time, Everything

Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose).
Haruki Murakami

Music, Write, Cats

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.
Haruki Murakami

Fun, Writing, After

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.
Haruki Murakami

Dream, While, Writer

You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don't have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don't know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don't know how much I pay in taxes.
Haruki Murakami

Time, Money, Best

Young people these days don't trust anything at all. They want to be free.
Haruki Murakami

Trust, Free, Young

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Biography

Nationality: Japanese

Type: Writer

Born: January 12, 1949

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