2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

If you want everything to be nice and straight all the time, then go live in a world made with a triungular ruler.

Since I'm a novelist I'm the opposite of you - I believe that what's most important is what cannot be measured. I'm not denying your way of thinking, but the greater part of people's lives consist of things that are unmeasurable, and trying to change all these to something measurable is realistically impossible.

This uneasiness comes over me from time to time, and I feel as if I've somehow been pieced together from two different puzzles.

I always write my novels with music (I don't listened to the music seriously.) Music seems to encourage me.

If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage

It's physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

I am here, alone, at the end of the world. I reach out and touch nothing.”.

Even if there were two of me, I still couldn't do all that has to be done. No matter what, though, I keep up my running. Running every day is a kind of lifeline for me, so I'm not going to lay off or quit just because I'm busy. If I used being busy as an excuse not to run, I'd never run again. I have only a few reasons to keep on running, and a truckload of them to quit. All I can do is keep those few reasons nicely polished.

The best point of my novels, I think, is their humor. I want to keep many my works humorous.