Haruki Murakami Quotes

I have notebooks all over the place. I write little stories for my cabaret.

All I can do is write my stories for mankind, and rest easy.

I always describe writing a story as throwing bowling pins in the air and then catching them.

Daydreaming had started me on the way; but story writing once I was truly in its grip, took me and shook me awake.

If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one person to another.

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.

Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.

I'm more interested in writing than in performing.

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

You become a great writer by writing.

I've wanted to write ever since I've gotten into comics. I wrote little things for myself when I was doing mini-comics and things, before becoming a professional. But I just figure at some point or another, I've got to make the leap. I just have to do it.

I got into writing because books and stories were always a big part of my life. I loved listening to them and then reading them, and I loved making them up.

I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about.

There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.

To write a novel is to embark on a quest that is very romantic. People have visions, and the next step is to execute them. That's a very romantic project. Like Edvard Munch's strange dreamlike canvases where people are stylized, like 'The Scream.' Munch must have had that vision in a dream, he never saw it.

I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books.

I think that one of the things you have to do to become a storyteller is spend a lot of time reading stories.

I seem to only write New York stories because it's the only thing that inspires or interests me.

I always liked to write and had fun writing, but I didn't have any pretensions about being a writer. I liked to read and liked to putz around and write little stories or poems, but my thing was sports.

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

I love writing, and I love making arts programmes.

I'm a writer. My job is to speak what - that which I think is true. If that bridges the gap, that's good. If it doesn't, that's too bad.

If I have a long period of time away from acting, I tend to write.