Top 84 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

About Haruki Murakami

These are some quotes by Japanese author Haruki Murakami Writer, who was born on January 12, 1949.

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished.

Haruki Murakami

I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory.

I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory.

Haruki Murakami

If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.

If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.

Haruki Murakami

Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all the time late into the night. I was very excited when I started making a living out of my writing, and I decided, 'I will live in nothing but an absolutely healthy way.'

Haruki Murakami

You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.

You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.

Haruki Murakami

I get up early in the morning, 4 o'clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that's enough. In the afternoon, I run.

I get up early in the morning, 4 o'clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that's enough. In the afternoon, I run.

Haruki Murakami

Sometimes I wonder why I'm a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I'm a successful writer.

Sometimes I wonder why I'm a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I'm a successful writer.

Haruki Murakami

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

Haruki Murakami

I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something.

I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something.

Haruki Murakami

As a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday's dream. Because it is a dream, there are so many contradictions and I have to adjust them to make the story work. But, in principle, the original dream does not change.

Haruki Murakami

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