Japanese Fiction Quotes

#1. It was really true what they said: you don't look for something out of the ordinary unless you have reason to.

Susan Krinard

#2. It happened in New York, April 10th, nineteen years ago. Even my hand balks at the date. I had to push to write it down, just to keep the pen moving on the paper. It used to be a perfectly ordinary day, but now it sticks up on the calendar like a rusty nail.

Donna Tartt

#3. What's that?' Thaniel said, curious. The postmarks and stamps weren't English or Japanese.

'A painting. There's a depressed Dutchman who does countryside scenes and flowers and things. It's ugly, but I have to maintain the estates in Japan and modern art is a good investment.

Natasha Pulley

#4. I guess Pumas are in their 30s. Cougars in their 40s ... Jaguars are 50s, and Sabretooths go into the 60s, right?

Courteney Cox

#5. I'm probably more comfortable inside a Marine Corps rifle company than I am anywhere in my life.

Jim Webb

#6. Psychologically speaking (I'll only wheel out the amateur psychology just this once, so bear with me), encounters that call up strong physical disgust or revulsion are often in fact projections of our own faults and weaknesses.

Haruki Murakami

#7. Before I had crossed the threshold of my church I was made to realize that I was shepherd of a divided flock.

Anna Howard Shaw

#8. During the Japanese invasion, bombs had fallen from the sky and people could run for cover. Now, they exploded in the middle of the road, or in the fields while people were playing soccer.

Mohamed Latiff Mohamed

#9. I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

Earl Warren

#10. For everything sacred has the substance of dreams and memories, and so we experience the miracle of what is separated from us by time or distance suddenly being made tangible.

Yukio Mishima

#11. I am in favour of a fully transferable allowance.

Nigel Lawson

#12. The line between him and the enemy had simultaneously blurred and solidified. Somehow, while perhaps it shouldn't have, this thought provided a strange sense of peace.

Kristina McMorris

#13. Cool is overrated. Be a geek for what you Love

Bridgit Mendler

#14. I refuse to look at him, because he'd probably kiss me and I know absolutely nothing about this guy, other than a couple of naked truths

Colleen Hoover

#15. I find Japanese books quite baffling when I read them in translation. It's only with Haruki Murakami that I find Japanse fiction that I can understand and relate to. He's a very international writer.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#16. Hank looked upwards for a second or two and said, "Hmm - well, in the Japanese way, if we don't know for sure, we always tell the person the worst possible result. That way, when they find out the actual case, they can only have the good feeling.

Richard Cezar

#17. If I choose to write about sheep, it's just because I happened to write about sheep. There is no deep significance.

Haruki Murakami

#18. This resembles the slow discipline of art: it's the work that Rembrandt did, that Picasso and Yeats and Rilke and Bach did. Bucket work implies much more discipline than most men realize.

Robert Bly

#19. If longevity is the best index to measure a company, a basic requirement is the ability of the corporation to generate new and new leaders.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

#20. In seven days God had created the Earth. In a single day mankind had turned it upside down.

Kristina McMorris

#21. I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.

Lafcadio Hearn

#22. You can't buy it, but it has a price," said Oryx. "Everything has a price.

Margaret Atwood

#23. He had been inspired to start a career in the porn industry after reading the incredible tale of a Japanese man who avenged the death of his sister by going down on her best friend for seven days and seven nights.

Mark Jackman

#24. Tokyo in the late 1960s seemed to be like one of the futures that science fiction presents. Here was the proto- super-technology of the future, electronically, robotically, blahblahblah, intercut with traditional Japanese cultural patterns, Shinto patterns.

Ian Watson

#25. Never settle for normal, Miss Lyons," Shinzo told her. "Normal is not natural. Extraordinary is natural, and that's why you're here. To do something extraordinary.

Kaylin McFarren