If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage

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

I often dream about the Dolphin Hotel.

Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

This is no honky-tonk parade. 1Q84 is the real world, where a cut draws real blood, where pain is real pain and fear is real fear. The moon in the sky is no paper moon.

Having an object that symbolizes freedom might make a person happier than actually getting the freedom it represents.

Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.