Top 41 Murakami Novel Quotes
#1. I want to make albums that are like a Murakami novel or a Terrence Malick film - something that explicitly states its own world.
Colin Stetson
#2. Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose).
Haruki Murakami
#3. People who's freedom is taken away always end up hating somebody. Right? I know I don't want to live like that.
Haruki Murakami
#4. For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I'm still awake. I can continue yesterday's dream today, something you can't normally do in everyday life.
Haruki Murakami
#5. Sometimes it's those things you can't touch that you need to hold on to the most.
Carrie Ryan
#6. When I write a novel I put into play all the information inside me. It might be Japanese information or it might be Western; I don't draw a distinction between the two.
Haruki Murakami
#7. I remembered reading in a hard-boiled detective novel that if you drink in the same place two nights in a row, the bartender and waiters will remember your face.
Ryu Murakami
#8. Everything starts with God in my career, and it will finish with God.
Mariano Rivera
#9. I always write my novels with music (I don't listened to the music seriously.) Music seems to encourage me.
Haruki Murakami
#10. Whenever I write a novel, I have a strong sense that I am doing something I was unable to do before. With each new work, I move up a step and discover something new inside me.
Haruki Murakami
#11. I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works.
Haruki Murakami
#12. Like a Chinese box, the world of the novel contained smaller worlds, and inside those were yet smaller worlds. Together, these worlds made up a single universe, and the universe waited there in the book to be discovered by the reader.
Haruki Murakami
#13. The new day is almost here, but the old one is still dragging its heavy skirts. Just as ocean water and river water struggle against each other at a river mouth, the old time and the new time clash and blend.
Haruki Murakami
#14. Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion ...
Jane Austen
#15. You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored. They are disappointed. They are expecting a more dynamic, creative, artistic thing to say. What I want to say is: you have to be practical.
Haruki Murakami
#16. I never plan. I never know what the next page is going to be ... But that's the fun of writing a novel or a story, because I don't know what's going to happen next.
Haruki Murakami
#17. I can't imagine how American readers will react to a novel, but if the story is appealing it doesn't matter much if you don't catch all the detail. I'm not too familiar with the geography of nineteenth century London, for instance, but I still enjoy reading Dickens.
Haruki Murakami
#18. In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be.
Haruki Murakami
#19. Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don't think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.
Haruki Murakami
#20. Stories lie deep in our souls. Stories lie so deep at the bottom of our hearts that they can bring people together on the deepest level. When I write a novel, I go into such depths.
Haruki Murakami
#21. It's true that at the time I was fond of Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and it was from them that I learned about this kind of simple, swift-paced style, but the main reason for the style of my first novel is that I simply did not have the time to write sustained prose.
Haruki Murakami
#22. Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women.
Brigitte Bardot
#23. I'm kind of the antithesis of a comedian. People that don't like me will agree with that.
Frank Caliendo
#25. That sounds good. But I don't like to be tied down in one place. I want to be free-to go to where I want, when I want, and be able to think about whatever I want.
Haruki Murakami
#26. If possible, I'd like to avoid that kind of literary burnout. My idea of literature is something more spontaneous, more cohesive, something with a kind of natural, positive vitality. For me, writing a novel is like climbing a steep mountain, struggling up the face of the cliff,
Haruki Murakami
#27. People love to see themselves on screen in a way that makes sense and seems on point.
Regina King
#28. You have to eat your technique. Digest it. It's in your blood, but you're not concerned with it anymore.
Tom Robbins
#30. I wondered if people ever blamed the end of friendships on geographical differences, the divides that come from being born in different areas, culture clash.
Jennifer Close
#31. Things like this don't happen all that often in one lifetime. This is the magnificent world of a picaresque novel. Just brace yourself and enjoy the smell of evil. We're shooting the rapids. And when we go over the falls, let's do it together in grand style!
Haruki Murakami
#32. September 1973, that's where this novel begins. That's the entrance. We'll just hope there's an exit. If there isn't one, there wouldn't be any point in writing anything.
Haruki Murakami
#33. I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel
Haruki Murakami
#34. Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help ...
Walter Benjamin
#35. We say in Japan that those who travel for love find a thousand miles not longer than one. Though
Marc Cameron
#36. There's a song called 'Live Blogging the Himmel Family Bris.' I kind of went for it here in terms of - it was really fun to be explaining ritual circumcision in Nashville - a lot of brises are done in hospitals, but many are done in people's homes, and there's a lot of food, and a lot of leftovers.
Rick Moranis
#37. But at some point Tengo noticed that returning to reality from the world of a novel was not as devastating a blow as returning from the world of mathematics.
Haruki Murakami
#38. I have read all my novels that were translated into English. Reading my novels is enjoyable because I forget almost all the content in them.
Haruki Murakami
#39. Al Davis is the kind of guy who would steal your eyes and then try to convince you that you looked better without them
Sam Rutigliano
#40. I felt as if I had become part of a badly written novel, that someone was taking me to task for being utterly unreal. And perhaps it was true.
Haruki Murakami
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