"I love pop culture -- the Rolling Stones, the Doors, David Lynch, things like that. That's why I said I don't like elitism.
Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us.
~ Haruki Murakami ~
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Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us.
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"Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists can't trust anything they haven't ...
"Something will work out tomorrow, I thought. And if not, then tomorrow I'll do some thinking. Ob—la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on.
"My short stories are like soft shadows I have set out in the world, faint footprints I have left. I remember exactly where I set down each and every o...
"Dreaming is the day job of novelists, but sharing our dreams is a still more important task for us. We cannot be novelists without this sense of shari...
"I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the m...
"I think of human existence as being like a two-story house. On the rst oor people gather together to take their meals, watch television, and talk. e s...
"I myself, as I’m writing, don’t know who did it. The readers and I are on the same ground. When I start to write a story, I don’t know the conclusion ...
"Writing a novel is like having a dream.
"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.
"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...
"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...
"Maybe that's why people don't like you. You make it obvious you don't care whether people like you or not. That makses some people angry.
"I dream, sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.