There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.
Haruki MurakamiGrandfather always said school’s a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either.
Haruki MurakamiSince I'm a novelist I'm the opposite of you - I believe that what's most important is what cannot be measured. I'm not denying your way of thinking, but the greater part of people's lives consist of things that are unmeasurable, and trying to change all these to something measurable is realistically impossible.
Haruki MurakamiThe best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape.
Haruki MurakamiWhat I feel for her is a wholly different emotion. It stands and walks on its own, living and breathing and throbbing and shaking me to the roots of my being.
Haruki MurakamiI think memory is the most important asset of human beings. It's a kind of fuel; it burns and it warms you. My memory is like a chest: There are so many drawers in that chest, and when I want to be a fifteen-year-old boy, I open up a certain drawer and I find the scenery I saw when I was a boy in Kobe. I can smell the air, and I can touch the ground, and I can see the green of the trees. That's why I want to write a book.
Haruki Murakami