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
Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves.
That's how people live in the real world: forcing stuff on each other.
We never choose anything at all. Things happen. Or not.
Find me now. Before someone else does.
Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock 'n' roll. Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like dreams. I liked movie theaters, the darkness and intimacy, and I liked the deep, sad summer nights.
The world is an inherently unfair place.
I happen to like the strange ones. People who look normal and leads normal lives - they're the ones you have to watch out for.
She's letting out her feelings. The scary thing is not being able to do that. When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you're in big trouble.
Will you wait for me forever?
Judging the mistakes of strangers is an easy thing to do - and it feels pretty good.
When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it.
One foot in front of the other. Repeat as often as necessary to finish.
Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant.
There are many things we only see clearly in retrospect.