2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

The scene seemed somehow divorced from reality, although reality, he knew, could at times be terribly unreal.

This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be along process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time.

The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything.

Loving another person is a wonderful thing, and if that love is sincere, no one ends up tossed into a labyrinth. You have to have more faith in yourself.

Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists can't trust anything they haven't seen with their own eyes or touched with their own hands. (Jerusalem Prize acceptance speech, JERUSALEM POST, Feb. 15, 2009)

You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough.

Sheep hurt my father, and through my father, sheep have also hurt me.

În întuneric, gândurile mele aveau ecou.

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.