Quotes By Haruki Murakami

I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven't belonged to any company or any system. It isn't easy to live like this in Japan.

I'm not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years.

Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all the time late into the night. I was very excited when I started making a living out of my writing, and I decided, 'I will live in nothing but an absolutely healthy way.'

I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.

My heroes don't have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don't know how, so they talk to themselves.

I like to read books. I like to listen to music.

I'm a writer, not a professional runner. It's fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.