Quote

She was a keen observer, a precise user of language, sharp-tongued and funny. She could stir your emotions. Yes, really, that's what she was so good at - stirring people's emotions, moving you. And she knew she had this power...I only realized later. At the time, I had no idea what she was doing to me.

Haruki Murakami

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Haruki Murakami
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 12
Athletics Competitor
Essayist
Linguist
Novelist
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Translator
University Teacher
Writer
Kyōto
Murakami Haruki
Time
Funny
Sharp
People
Idea
Users
Tongued
Language
Precise
User
Moving
Emotions
Observer
Power
Realized
Stir
Ideas
Later
Keen
Really
Emotion
Stirring
Good
Knew
Observers

More quotes by Haruki Murakami

Image
I have this strange feeling that I'm not myself anymore. It's hard to put into words, but I guess it's like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling.
Haruki Murakami
Image
She was, if anything, on the plain side, at least not the type to attract men wherever she went. But there was something in her face that was meant for me alone. Everytime we met, I took a good look at her. And loved what I saw.
Haruki Murakami
Image
Irrepressible curiosity vied with an instinctive fear.
Haruki Murakami
Image
Our responsibility begins with our imagination.
Haruki Murakami
Image
So I made up my mind I was going to find someone who would love me unconditionally three hundred and sixty-five days a year. Watanabe: Wow, and did your search pay off? M: That's the hard part. I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough.
Haruki Murakami
Image
Mental acuity was never born from comfortable circumstances.
Haruki Murakami
Image
Mediocrity's like a spot on a shirt—it never comes off.
Haruki Murakami
Image
For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second basement. What I want to do is go down there, but still stay sane.
Haruki Murakami
Image
Memory is like fiction or else it's fiction that's like memory.
Haruki Murakami
Image
Whether in music or in fiction, the most basic thing is rhythm. Your style needs to have good, natural, steady rhythm, or people won't keep reading your work.
Haruki Murakami
Image
But what seems like a reasonable distance to one person might feel too far to somebody else.
Haruki Murakami
Image
I generally concentrate on work for three or four hours every morning. I sit at my desk and focus totally on what I’m writing. I don’t see anything else, I don’t think about anything else.
Haruki Murakami
Image
Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.
Haruki Murakami
Image
Never trust a man who carries a handkerchief, I always say. One of many prejudicial rules of thumb.
Haruki Murakami
Image
I may not be the most likable person in the world, but I try not to upset people.
Haruki Murakami
Image
The faintest gleam of their lost memories glimmered for the briefest moment in their hearts.
Haruki Murakami
Image
sometimes I think I've got this hard kernel in my heart, and nothing much can get inside it. I doubt if I can really love anybody.
Haruki Murakami
Image
But metaphors help eliminate what separates you and me.
Haruki Murakami
Image
An expectation was there, mixed in with so many other emotions - excitement, resignation, hesitation, confusion, fear - that would well up then wither on the vine. You're optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does.
Haruki Murakami
Image
My point is: in this whole wide world the only person you can depend on is you.
Haruki Murakami