Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them.
Haruki MurakamiThe others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but I had no such ambition. There was nothing I wanted to be.
Haruki MurakamiThinking about spaghetti that boils eternally but is never done is a sad, sad thing.
Haruki MurakamiIโm me, and at the same time not me. Thatโs what it felt like. A very still, quiet feeling.
Haruki MurakamiKafka is one of my very favorite writers. Kafka's fictional world is already so complete that trying to follow in his steps is not just pointless, but quite risky, too. What I see myself doing, rather, is writing novels where, in my own way, I dismantle the fictional world of Kafka that itself dismantled the existing novelistic system.
Haruki Murakami