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Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists can't trust anything they haven't seen with their own eyes or touched with their own hands.
Haruki Murakami
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Haruki Murakami
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 12
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Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves.
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The facts and techniques or whatever they teach you in class isn't going to be veryuseful in the real world, that's for sure.
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