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
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.
Once thing goes wrong, then the whole house of cards collapses. And there's no way you can extricate yourself. Until someone comes along to drag you out.
That’s all I think about these days. Must be because I have so much time to kill every day. When you don’t have anything to do, your thoughts get really, really far out-so far out you can’t follow them all the way to the end.
That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way.
The world is full of ways and means to waste time.
Things pass us by. Nobody can catch them. That's the way we live our lives.
It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.
What’s more, you’re loads better than you think you are.” “So why is it I get to thinking that way?” I puzzled. “That’s because you’re only half-living.” she said briskly. “The other half is still untapped somewhere.
Lots of different ways to live and lots of different ways to die. But in the end that doesn't make a bit of difference. All that remains is a desert.
I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.
The best way to think about reality, I had decided, was to get as far away from it as possible.
There's an essential order you have to follow in everything. It's a way of showing respect, following everything in the correct order.
She gave me this look – she might have been watching from a lifeboat as the ship went down. Or maybe it was the other way around.
In his own way, he's lived life with all the intensity he could muster.