Quotes by Haruki Murakami

About Haruki Murakami:

Haruki Murakami is a contemporary Japanese writer. His books and stories have been bestsellers in Japan as well as internationally, with his work being translated into 50 languages and selling millions of copies outside his native country.
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Don't tell me anymore. You should have your dream, as the old woman told you to. I understand how you feel, but if you put those feelings into words they will turn into lies. (from Thailand)

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Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value.

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He would eventually have to pass through the forest, but he felt no fear. Of course - the forest was inside him, he knew, and it made him who he was.

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Exactly. When is comes to anything halfway important, you just don't get it. It's amazing to me that you can put a piece of fiction together' 'Yeah, well, that's a whole different thing.' (from Honey Pie)

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It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not read friendship.

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I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind that men feel towards their imagination. (from Super-frog Saves Tokyo)

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The whole terrible fight occured in the area of imagination. That is the precise location of our battlefield. It is there, that we experience our victories and defeats.

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What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me.

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It's just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me.

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Opera lovers may be the narrowest people in the world.

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Listen to this, Nimit. Follow Coleman Hawkins' improvised lines very carefully. He is using them to tell us something. Pay very close attention. He is telling us the story of the free spirit that is doing everything it can to escape from within him. ...

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No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself. It’s like your shadow. It follows you everywhere. -Komura

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Words left their mouths to hang frozen in midair.

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There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

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It’s really difficult to talk about dead people, but it’s even harder to talk about dead young women. It’s because from the time they die, they’ll be young forever. On the other hand, for us, the survivors, every year, every month, every day,...

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That's how it is with art. Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning are incapable of such writing.

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People with dark souls have nothing but dark dreams. People with really dark souls do nothing but dream,

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Telling lies is a really terrible thing. These days, lies and silence are the two greatest sins in human society you might say. In reality, we tell lots of lies, and we often break into silence. However, if we were constant;y talking year-round, and ...

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Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I'm talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean.

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I could feel her breasts up against my stomach. I wanted a beer real bad.

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Author Bio

  • NameHaruki Murakami
  • DescriptionJapanese author, novelist
  • AliasesMurakami Haruki
  • BornJanuary 12, 1949
  • CountryJapan
  • ProfessionLinguist; Novelist; Writer; Translator; Essayist
  • WorksA Wild Sheep Chase; Norwegian Wood; The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle; Kafka On The Shore; 1Q84
  • AwardsFranz Kafka Prize; Yomiuri Prize; Tanizaki Prize; Jerusalem Prize; Noma Literary Prize; World Fantasy Award For Best Novel; Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award