Quotes By Haruki Murakami

I don't get bored.

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

In Japan they prefer the realistic style. They like answers and conclusions, but my stories have none. I want to leave them wide open to every possibility. I think my readers understand that openness.

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

I used to run a full marathon in three hours and 25 or 26 minutes. Not any more.

It's physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

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

I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It's a parallel thing in me.