Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. Bu... -Haruki Murakami

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.

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Haruki Murakami Quotes to Explore

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 ...
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 m...
Young people these days don't trust anything at all. They want to be free....
I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory....
I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else....
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 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 ima...
Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most....
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...
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 mor...

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I don't dream songs. I'm more apt to write dreams down and then to be able to interpret them into a song. I also tend to get up and write prose in the...
I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web....
Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning....
Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and yo...
We don't watch the film anymore because we've seen it so many times, so we'll introduce it, walk out and we'll come back in right about when I wake up...
We'd be working in our motel room through the night, and I'd come up with an idea at two in the morning, and he'd start jumping up and down, pacing ac...
In live action movies, you just hope that everything works. Because the actor may had a bad morning and doesn't play good, or accidents happen continu...
We were making new ones the second year. We were in syndication the second year. So we were on Saturday nights, prime time, every morning, and then th...
The next morning we saw nothing of the enemy, though we were still lying to....
I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session, for the sake of defea...