I probably still havenโt completely adapted to the world. I donโt know, I feel like this isnโt the real world. The people, the scene: they just donโt seem real to me.
Haruki MurakamiWhether in music or in fiction, the most basic thing is rhythm. Your style needs to have good, natural, steady rhythm, or people won't keep reading your work.
Haruki MurakamiThereโs nothing wrong with not looking like something. It just means you donโt fit the stereotype yet.
Haruki MurakamiWhere there is light, there must be shadow, where there is shadow there must be light. There is no shadow without light and no light without shadow.... We do not know if the so-called Little People are good or evil. This is, in a sense, something that surpasses our understanding and our definitions. We have lived with them since long, long ago-- from a time before good and evil even existed, when people's minds were still benighted.
Haruki Murakami