Haruki Murakami Quotes

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

Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally. So 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. The next day, the dream will continue.

Young people these days don't trust anything at al... -Haruki Murakami

Young people these days don't trust anything at all. They want to be free.

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The quote characterizes young people as lacking trust in various aspects of life, indicating a general skepticism or cynicism prevalent among the younger generation, and suggesting a desire for independence and freedom from conventional norms or institutions.

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it's not imagination. It's just a way of watching.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

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 lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedo... -Haruki Murakami

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.

I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

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