Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Writing
Totally
Work
Focus
Every
Morning
Think
Four
Thinking
Hours
Desk
Three
Desks
Else
Concentrate
Anything
Generally
More quotes by Haruki Murakami
When I wake up, my pillow’s cold and damp with tears. But tears for what? I have no idea.
Haruki Murakami
Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left?
Haruki Murakami
I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.
Haruki Murakami
I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all.
Haruki Murakami
In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life.
Haruki Murakami
What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real.
Haruki Murakami
Time flows in a strange way on Sundays.
Haruki Murakami
Memory is like fiction or else it's fiction that's like memory.
Haruki Murakami
If you think about it, an unfair society is a society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit.
Haruki Murakami
Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.
Haruki Murakami
This person, this self, this me, finally, was made somewhere else. Everything had come from somewhere else, and it would all go somewhere else. I was nothing but a pathway for the person known as me.
Haruki Murakami
Music always stimulates my imagination. When I'm writing I usually have some Baroque music on low in the background chamber music by Bach, Telemann, and the like.
Haruki Murakami
Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.
Haruki Murakami
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
For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like a Reserved sign on a quiet corner table in a restaurant. Despite the fact that I was sure I'd never see her again.
Haruki Murakami
Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness.
Haruki Murakami
Start making excuses and there's no end to it. I can't live that kind of life.
Haruki Murakami
I’ve built a wall around me, never letting anybody inside and trying not to venture outside myself
Haruki Murakami
Is this what it means to go back to square one? Most likely. He had nothing left to lose, other than his life.
Haruki Murakami
The faintest gleam of their lost memories glimmered for the briefest moment in their hearts.
Haruki Murakami
