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Haruki Murakami Quotes about Writing

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I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love.

I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love.

Haruki Murakami
Dream, Writing, Night
FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 25, 2014

I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel

Haruki Murakami
Book, Writing, Long

To be able to talk to your heart’s content about a book you like with someone who feels the same way about it is one of the greatest joys that life can offer.

Haruki Murakami
Book, Writing, Heart
FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Apr 30, 2014

How wonderful it is to be able to write someone a letter! To feel like conveying your thoughts to a person, to sit at your desk and pick up a pen, to put your thoughts into words like this is truly marvelous.

Haruki Murakami
Writing, Letters, Able
Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.112, Random House

It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life.

Haruki Murakami
Writing, Together, Crumbling

Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. This really came home to me once I started writing fiction, that memory seemd a kind of fiction, or vice versa. Either way, no matter how hard you try to put everything neatly into shape, the context wanders this way and that, until finally the context isn't even there anymore... Warm with life, hopeless unstable.

Haruki Murakami
Memories, Home, Writing
Haruki Murakami (1994). “The Elephant Vanishes”, Vintage

I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

Haruki Murakami
Country, Writing, Humble

For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I'm still awake. I can continue yesterday's dream today, something you can't normally do in everyday life.

Haruki Murakami
Dream, Writing, Yesterday
"Kafka on the Shore, readers at sea" by Sam Jordison, www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2015.

Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.

Haruki Murakami
Writing, People, Needs
Haruki Murakami (2011). “A Wild Sheep Chase”, p.63, Random House

You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough.

Haruki Murakami
Writing, Important, Quality

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

Haruki Murakami
Birthday, Writing, Remembers Everything

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

Haruki Murakami
Book, Writing, Priorities

The good thing about writing book is that you can dream while you are awake.

Haruki Murakami
Dream, Book, Writing

George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don't want to write messages. I want to write good stories. I think of myself as a political person, but I don't state my political messages to anybody.

Haruki Murakami
Writing, Thinking, Political

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

Haruki Murakami
Writing, Perfect, Insightful
Haruki Murakami (1987). “風の歌を聴け”

When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.

Haruki Murakami
Writing, Waiting, Stories

My short stories are like soft shadows I have set out in the world, faint footprints I have left. I remember exactly where I set down each and every one of them, and how I felt when I did. Short stories are like guideposts to my heart.

Haruki Murakami
Writing, Heart, Shadow
Haruki Murakami (2011). “Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman”, p.9, Random House

A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me awake and shout, 'Hey,this is no time for sleeping! You can't forget me, there's still more to write!' Impelled by that voice, I would find myself writing a novel. In this sense, too, my short stories and novels connect inside me in a very natural, organic way.

Haruki Murakami
Writing, Sleep, Night

If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.

Haruki Murakami
Writing, Garden, Stories

I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence, enjoying the style. If I don't enjoy the writing, I stop.

Haruki Murakami
Writing, Style, Enjoy

Perhaps I'm just too painstaking a type of person, but I can't grasp much of anything without putting down my thoughts in writing.

Haruki Murakami
Writing, Type, My Thoughts

A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.

Haruki Murakami
Writing, Twelve, Lifetime
"'When I Run I Am in a Peaceful Place'". Interview with Maik Grossekathöfer, www.spiegel.de. February 20, 2008.

I had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn't have to write for my living.

Haruki Murakami
Writing, Clubs, Had Enough
"Haruki Murakami: 'I took a gamble and survived'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2011.

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

Haruki Murakami
Writing, Trying, Stories

Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.

Haruki Murakami
Writing, Long, Survival
"Haruki Murakami, The Art of Fiction No. 182". Interview with John Wray, www.theparisreview.org. 2004.

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