Haruki Murakami Quotes

Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words.

I appreciate hearing different stories. It inspires me.

He who has no sympathy with myths has no sympathy with men.

The job of a storyteller is to tell stories, and I have concentrated on that obligation.

There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.

Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.

Stories are made up by people who make them up. If they work, they get retold. There's the magic of it.

[M]yths are not invented as stories are. Myths are inspired-they really are. They come from the same realm that dream comes from.

I am attracted to myths.

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

Combine two words, Myth and History. What do you get? Mystery.

I loved all the world's mythologies.

Every great story seems to begin with a snake.

Fairy tales and folk tales are part of the DNA of all stories and great fun to write.

We are surrounded by story.

Stories build cultures by answering the big questions.

I love mythic stuff. I love playing with gods, I love playing with myths. A lot of it has to do with that they're the basic places stories come from. They're the clay that you make the bricks out of.

Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice.

Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all.

Once upon a time . . .” “In the beginning was . . .” That’s the way it always starts off. Every story, gospel, history, chronicle, myth, legend, folktale, or old wives’ tale blues riff begins with “Woke up this mornin’. . . .

Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all its forms—of life, of love, of knowledge—has traced the upward surge of mankind. And story, you mark my words, will be with the last human to draw breath.

To survive, you must tell stories.

I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.

The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed

It's a good country for myths. Things seem to take root here.