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I get up early in the morning, 4 o'clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that's enough. In the afternoon...more

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Writing a novel is like having a dream.

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If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there’s salvation in life. Even if you can’t get together with that person.

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In the novelist's profession, as far as I'm concerned, there's no such thing as winning or losing. Maybe numbers of copies sold, awards won, and criti...more

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It's a dark, cool, quiet place. A basement in your soul. And that place can sometimes be dangerous to the human mind. I can open the door and enter th...more

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April and May were painful, lonely months for me because I couldn't talk to you. I never knew that spring could be so painful and lonely. Better to ha...more

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I think most readers would say the same. Most would choose Midori. And the protagonist, of course, chooses her in the end. But some part of him is alw...more

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You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentiona...more

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I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can't even love myself. Why is that? Why can't...more

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A certain something, he felt, had managed to work its way in through a tiny opening and was trying to fill a blank space inside him. The void was not ...more

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The third dream was hard to put into words. It was a rambling, incoherent dream without any setting. All that was there was a feeling of being in moti...more

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If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.

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You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough.

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I still don't know what sort of world this is, she thought, But whatever world we're in now, I'm sure this is where I will stay. Where we will stay. T...more

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A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.