Haruki Murakami Quotes - Page 2

It's a dark, cool, quiet place. A basement in your soul. And that place can sometimes be dangerous to the human mind. I can open the door and enter that darkness, but I have to be very careful. I can find my story there. Then I bring that thing to the surface, into the real world.

I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love.

Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.

That's how it is with art. Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning are incapable of such writing.

Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end.

You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough.

Dreaming is the day job of novelists, but sharing our dreams is a still more important task for us. We cannot be novelists without this sense of sharing something.

My short stories are like soft shadows I have set out in the world, faint footprints I have left. I remember exactly where I set down each and every one of them, and how I felt when I did. Short stories are like guideposts to my heart...

I love pop culture - the Rolling Stones, the Doors, David Lynch, things like that.
That's why I said I don't like elitism.

Writing things was important, wasn't it? Nakata asked.
'Yes, it was. The process of writing was important. Even though the finished product is completely meaningless.

Forgive me for stating the obvious, but the world is made up of all kinds of people. Other people have their own value to live by, and the same holds true with me.

Have your dream...What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand)

I think that my job is to observe people and the world, and not to judge them. I always hope to position myself away from so-called conclusions. I would like to leave everything wide open to all the possibilities in the world.

It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.

But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.

Words left their mouths to hang frozen in midair.

Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us.

It's not me but the world that's deranged.

Every person should decide for himself how happy, or unhappy, our society might be.

Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away.