2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

I can't imagine how American readers will react to a novel, but if the story is appealing it doesn't matter much if you don't catch all the detail. I'm not too familiar with the geography of nineteenth century London, for instance, but I still enjoy reading Dickens.

When I write a novel I put into play all the information inside me. It might be Japanese information or it might be Western; I don't draw a distinction between the two.

I had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn’t have to write for my living.

Why do people have to be this lonely? What’s the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?

Each individual has their own unique color, which shines faintly around the contours of their body. Like a halo. Or a backlight. I’m able to see those colors clearly.

I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.

Like fish that live at the bottom of the ocean, most of her dreams weren’t able to float to the surface.

I’m not human. I’m a piece of machinery. I don’t need to feel a thing. Just forge on ahead.

I wasn’t particularly afraid of death itself. As Shakespeare said, die this year and you don’t have to die the next.