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
Adults need more complex narratives. They have their own narratives. The main characters are themselves.
Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us. If we were no longer here, words would lose their whole function. They would end up as words that are never spoken, and words that aren't spoken are no longer words. - (Where I'm Likely To Find It)
Have your dream...What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand)
He sometimes wondered if she had become involved with him just so that she could cry in someone's arms. Maybe she can't cry alone, and that's why she needs me.
But didn't you say you were satisfied with your life?" "Word games," I dismissed. "Every army needs a flag.
For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second basement. What I want to do is go down there, but still stay sane.
Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us.
I'm not human. I'm a piece of machinery. I don't need to feel a thing. Just forge on ahead.
It's a terrible thing when a person dies, whatever the circumstances. A hole opens up in the world, and we need to pay the proper respects. If we don't, the hole will never be filled in again.
What the world needs is a set villain that people can point at and say, “It’s all your fault!
We were young, and we had no need for prophecies. Just living was itself an act of prophecy.
It's a quiet place, so people talk quietly," said Naoko. She made a neat pile of fish bones at the edge of her plate and dabbed at her mouth with a handkerchief. "There's no need to raise your voice here. You don't have to convince anybody of anything, and you don't have to attract anyone's attention.
Friends don't need the intervention of a third party. Friendship's a voluntary thing.
At times like this, adults need a drink