62 Quotes by Haruki Murakami about writing


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    That's how it is with art. Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning are incapable of such writing.

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    It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.

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    The thoughts that occur to me while I’m running are like clouds in the sky. Clouds of all different sizes. They come and they go, while the sky remains the same sky always. The clouds are mere guests in the sky that pass away and vanish, leaving behind the sky.

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    Writing novels is much the same. You gather up bones and make your gate, but no matter how wonderful the gate might be, that alone doesn't make it a living breathing novel. A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on this side with the world on the other side.

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