I didn't start running because somebody asked me to become a runner. Just like I didn't become a novelist because someone asked me to. One day, out of the blue, I wanted to write a novel. And one day, out of the blue, I started to run-simply because I wanted to. I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change.
Haruki MurakamiSomewhere in his body--perhaps in the marrow of his bones--he would continue to feel her absence.
Haruki MurakamiSomeone who can search for something is happy. Searching gives a meaning to life. Nowadays itโs not so easy to find something you might be looking for. The most important thing, however, is the search itself, the way you take. Itโs not so important where it leads. thatโs why my characters are always looking for something, maybe only a cat, a sheep or a wife, but that is at least the beginning of a story.
Haruki MurakamiIt was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life.
Haruki MurakamiIf there's any guy crazy enough to attack me, I'm going to show him the end of the world -- close up. I'm going to let him see the kingdom come with his own eyes. I'm going to send him straight to the southern hemisphere and let the ashes of death rain all over him and the kangaroos and the wallabies.
Haruki Murakami