List of Haruki Murakami Quotes

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Haruki Murakami
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Running taught me to have faith in my skills as a writer. i learned how much i can demand of myself, when i need a break, and when the break starts to get too long. i known how hard i am allowed to push myself.
Running Skills Long
Sometimes i find it too hot to run, and sometimes too cold. or too cloudy. but i still go running. i know that if i didn't go running, i wouldn't go the next day either. it's not in human nature to take unnecessary burdens upon oneself, so one's body soon becomes disaccustomed. it mustn't do that. it's the same with writing. i write every day so that my mind doesn't become disaccustomed.
Running Writing Next Day
Exerting yourself to the limit over and over again, that is the essence of running. running is painful, but the pain doesn't leave me, i can take care of it. that agrees with my mentality.
Running Pain Essence
It is however, difficult to make your narratives relative by yourself. a novelists' work is to provide models to make your narratives relative. if you read my novels then you may feel, "i have the same experience as this narrative", or "i have the same idea as this novel". it means that your narrative and mine sympathize, concord and resonate together.
Mean Ideas Together
Adults need more complex narratives. they have their own narratives. the main characters are themselves.
Character Adults Needs
I've translated a lot of american literature into japanese, and i think that what makes a good translator is, above all, a feel for language and also a great affection for the work you're translating. if one of those elements is missing the translation won't be worth much.
Thinking Missing Elements
All things in my novels are real for me. some western critics said that garcia marquez's novels are magic realism. however, i believe that marquez must have experienced everything in his novels.
Real Believe Magic
I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when i was a manager of my own jazz bar. there was not enough time to write and i didn't know how to write novels. therefore, i made written collages of aphorisms and rags.
Writing Two Long
I can't imagine how american readers will react to a novel, but if the story is appealing it doesn't matter much if you don't catch all the detail. i'm not too familiar with the geography of nineteenth century london, for instance, but i still enjoy reading dickens.
Reading Matter Details
When i write a novel i put into play all the information inside me. it might be japanese information or it might be western; i don't draw a distinction between the two.
Writing Play Two
Myths are the prototype for all stories. when we write a story on our own it can't help but link up with all sorts of myths. myths are like a reservoir containing every story there is.
Writing Stories Links
I don't know a whole lot about symbolism. there seems to me to be a potential danger in symbolism. i feel more comfortable with metaphors and similes.
Symbolism Metaphor Danger
  • Born: January 12, 1949
  • Occupation: Writer
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