01UndatedI find myself thinking about my ongoing existence as a human being and the path that lies ahead of me. Though of course these thoughts lead to but one place - death.Haruki Murakami / quote ↗
02UndatedSuicides? Heart attacks? The papers didn't seem interested. The world was full of ways to die, too many to cover. Newsworthy deaths had to be exceptional. Most people go unobserved.Haruki Murakami / quote ↗
04UndatedLuka fisik memang diperlukan saat mempelajari sesuatu yang penting dalam hidup.Haruki Murakami / quote ↗
06UndatedThere's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.Haruki Murakami / quote ↗
08UndatedIt just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.Haruki Murakami / quote ↗
09UndatedIf she did experience sex--or something close to it--in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity.Haruki Murakami / quote ↗
10UndatedThe thoughts that occur to me while I’m running are like clouds in the sky. Clouds of all different sizes. They come and they go, while the sky remains the same sky always. The clouds are mere guests in the sky that pass away and vanish, leaving behind the sky.Haruki Murakami / quote ↗
11UndatedIt'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.Haruki Murakami / quote ↗
12UndatedGenerally, 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.Haruki Murakami / quote ↗
13UndatedI 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.Haruki Murakami / quote ↗
14UndatedThat'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.Haruki Murakami / quote ↗
15UndatedHundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end.Haruki Murakami / quote ↗
16UndatedYou like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough.Haruki Murakami / quote ↗
17UndatedI write weird stories. I don't know why I like weirdness so much. Myself, I'm a very realistic person. I don't trust anything New Age -- or reincarnation, dreams, Tarot, horoscopes. I don't trust anything like that at all. I wake up at 6 in the morning and go to bed at 10, jogging every day and swimming, eating healthy food. I'm very realistic. But when I write, I write weird. That's very strange. When I'm getting more and more serious, I'm getting more and more weird. When I want to write about the reality of society and the world, it gets weird. Many people ask me why, and I can't answer that. But I recognized when I was interviewing those 63 ordinary people -- they were very straightforward, very simple, very ordinary, but their stories were sometimes very weird. That was interesting.Haruki Murakami / quote ↗
18UndatedMy 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...Haruki Murakami / quote ↗
19UndatedDreaming 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.Haruki Murakami / quote ↗
20UndatedI love pop culture -- the Rolling Stones, the Doors, David Lynch, things like that. That's why I said I don't like elitism.Haruki Murakami / quote ↗
21UndatedWriting 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.Haruki Murakami / quote ↗
22UndatedOr maybe that’s what it’s all about: this religion’s substance is its lack of substance. In McLuhanesque terms, the medium is the message. Some people might find that cool.”“McLuhanesque?”“Hey, look, even I read a book now and then,” Ayumi protested. “McLuhan was ahead of his time. He was so popular for a while that people tend not to take him seriously, but what he had to say was right.”“In other words, the package itself is the contents. Is that it?”“Exactly. The characteristics of the package determine the nature of the contents, not the other way around.Haruki Murakami / quote ↗
23UndatedIn ancient times people weren't just male or female, but one of three types: male/male, male/female, or female/female. In other words, each person was made out of the components of two people. Everyone was happy with this arrangement and never really gave it much thought. But then God took a knife and cut everybody in half, right down the middle. So after that the world was divided just into male and female, the upshot being that people spend their time running around trying to locate their missing other half.Haruki Murakami / quote ↗
24UndatedYou know what I should do?" Hoshino asked excited. "Of course," the cat said. "What'd I tell you? Cats know everything. Not like dogs.Haruki Murakami / quote ↗
