2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

To keep on going, you have to keep up the rhythm.

Hey, what is it with you? Why are you so spaced out? You still haven't answered me." I probably still haven't completely adapted to the world," I said after giving it some thought. "I don't know, I feel like this isn't the real world. The people, the scene: they just don't seem real to me." Midori rested an elbow on the bar and looked at me. "There was something like that in a Jim Morrison song, I'm pretty sure." People are strange when you're a stranger.

I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.

When I'm running I don't have to talk to anybody and don't have to listen to anybody. This is a part of my day I can't do without.

It doesn’t matter how old I get, but as long as I continue to live I’ll always discover something new about myself.

I never plan. I never know what the next page is going to be..... But that's the fun of writing a novel or a story, because I don't know what's going to happen next.

What’s more, you’re loads better than you think you are.” “So why is it I get to thinking that way?” I puzzled. “That’s because you’re only half-living.” she said briskly. “The other half is still untapped somewhere.

I'm kind of a big kettle. It takes time to get boiled, but then I'm always hot.

I closed my eyes and listened carefully for the descendants of Sputnik, even now circling the earth, gravity their only tie to the planet. Lonely metal souls in the unimpeded darkness of space, they meet, pass each other, and part, never to meet again. No words passing between them. No promises to keep.