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
What I'd like to be is a unique writer who's different from everybody else. I want to be a writer who tells stories unlike other writers'.
The best point of my novels, I think, is their humor. I want to keep many my works humorous.
Okay, let’s put it this way. I would like to sleep with you. But it’s alright if I don’t sleep with you. What I’m saying is I’d like to be as fair as possible. I don’t want to force anything on anybody, any more than I’d want anything forced on me. It’s enough that I feel your presence or see your commas swirling around me.
When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want.
I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It's a parallel thing in me.
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.
If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.
Everything has boundaries. the same holds true with thought. you shouldn't fear boundaries, but you also should not be afraid of destroying them. that's what is most important if you want to be free: respect for and exasperation with boundaries. what's really important in life is always the things that are secondary.
Young people these days don't trust anything at all. They want to be free.
If you really want to know what's happening here and now, you've got to use your own eyes and your own judgment.
We knew exactly what we wanted in each other. And even so, it ended. One day it stopped, as if the film simply slipped off the reel.
When the fire goes out, you'll start feeling the cold. You'll wake up whether you want to or not.
If there’s something I can’t do but want to, I won’t relax until I’m able to do it.
A certain kind of shittiness, a certain kind of stagnation, a certain kind of darkness, goes on propagating itself by its own power in its own self-contained cycle. And once it passes a certain point, no one can stop it-even if the person himself wants to stop it.