Category - Haruki Murakami

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Haruki Murakami

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don’t know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying – please let me live until I am finished.

– Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami

Every writer has his writing technique – what he can and can’t do to describe something like war or history. I’m not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

– Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami

I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

– Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami

Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o’clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.

– Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami

My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories – not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father’s generation. It’s a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.

– Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami

For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second basement. What I want to do is go down there, but still stay sane.

– Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami

Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all the time late into the night. I was very excited when I started making a living out of my writing, and I decided, ‘I will live in nothing but an absolutely healthy way.’

– Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

– Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami

In Japan, the writers have made up a literary community, a circle, a society. I think 90 percent of Japan’s writers live in Tokyo. Naturally, they make a community. There are groups and customs, and so they are tied up in a way.

– Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami

I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something.

– Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami

I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.

– Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami

I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It’s a parallel thing in me.

– Haruki Murakami

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