Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakamiis 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. The critical acclaim for his fiction and non-fiction has led to numerous awards, in Japan and internationally, including the World Fantasy Awardand the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. His oeuvre received, for example, the Franz Kafka Prizeand the Jerusalem Prize...
NationalityJapanese
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth12 January 1949
CountryJapan
If I have left a wound inside you, it is not just your wound but mine as well.
What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.
I'll be happy if running and I can grow old together.
Start making excuses and there's no end to it. I can't live that kind of life.
They were each like a mirror for the other, reflecting the changes in themselves.
People sometimes sneer at those who run every day, claiming they'll go to any length to live longer. But don't think that's the reason most people run. Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest.
Become like a sheet of blotting paper and soak it all in. Later on you can figure out what to keep and what to unload.
I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change.
In a sense, I'm the one who ruined me: I did it myself.
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 one that she had made. It had always been there inside him. She had merely managed to shine a special light on it.
She was seriously in love, but she never made demands.
sometimes I think I've got this hard kernel in my heart, and nothing much can get inside it. I doubt if I can really love anybody.
If you think God’s there, He is. If you don’t, He isn’t. And if that’s what God’s like, I wouldn’t worry about it.
I go by the gut. I might not appear to have any talent but I've got plenty of gut instinct.