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Most of what I know about writing I've learned through running every day.

Most of what I know about writing I've learned through running every day.

Haruki Murakami
Running, Writing, I've Learned
Haruki Murakami (2011). “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running”, p.81, Random House

If I choose to write about sheep, it's just because I happened to write about sheep. There is no deep significance.

Haruki Murakami
Writing, Sheep, Significance

I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write.

Haruki Murakami
Writing, Artist, Thinking

It's just like sex; when [a book is] finished, it's finished.

Haruki Murakami
Sex, Book, Writing

Stories lie deep in our souls. Stories lie so deep at the bottom of our hearts that they can bring people together on the deepest level. When I write a novel, I go into such depths.

Haruki Murakami
Lying, Writing, Heart

I think memory is the most important asset of human beings. It's a kind of fuel; it burns and it warms you. My memory is like a chest: There are so many drawers in that chest, and when I want to be a fifteen-year-old boy, I open up a certain drawer and I find the scenery I saw when I was a boy in Kobe. I can smell the air, and I can touch the ground, and I can see the green of the trees. That's why I want to write a book.

Haruki Murakami
Memories, Book, Writing

I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory.

Haruki Murakami
Memories, Writing, Thinking
"What Haruki Murakami talks about". Interview with Heidi Benson, www.sfgate.com. October 26, 2008.

Writing is fun - at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That's easy to manage.

Haruki Murakami
Running, Fun, Writing

Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves.

Haruki Murakami
Writing, Want, Mature
Haruki Murakami (2011). “1Q84:”, p.184, Random House

It's true that at the time I was fond of Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and it was from them that I learned about this kind of simple, swift-paced style, but the main reason for the style of my first novel is that I simply did not have the time to write sustained prose.

Haruki Murakami
Writing, Simple, Style

Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.

Haruki Murakami
Morning, Writing, Roots
"Marathon man". Interview with Richard Williams, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2003.

Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don't think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.

Haruki Murakami
Writing, Thinking, America

I didn't start running because somebody asked me to become a runner. Just like I didn't become a novelist because someone asked me to. One day, out of the blue, I wanted to write a novel. And one day, out of the blue, I started to run-simply because I wanted to. I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change.

Haruki Murakami
Running, Writing, Blue
FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Aug 21, 2015

I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to prove that I could write a realistic book.

Haruki Murakami
Book, Writing, Realistic

I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It's a parallel thing in me.

Haruki Murakami
Running, Writing, Wanted
"What Haruki Murakami talks about". Interview with Heidi Benson, www.sfgate.com. October 26, 2008.

I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to a publisher and I got some kind of prize, so it was like a dream - I was surprised to find it happening.

Haruki Murakami
Dream, Book, Writing

I try not to think about anything special while running. As a matter of fact, I usually run with my mind empty. However, when I run empty-minded, something naturally and abruptly crawls in sometime. That might become an idea that can help me with my writing.

Haruki Murakami
Running, Writing, Thinking

I was enjoying myself writing, because I don't know what's going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don't know at all what you're going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you're a kid and you're reading stories.

Haruki Murakami
Book, Reading, Writing

Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all the time late into the night. I was very excited when I started making a living out of my writing, and I decided, 'I will live in nothing but an absolutely healthy way.'

Haruki Murakami
Running, Mean, Writing

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
Morning, Writing, Thinking
Haruki Murakami (2011). “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running”, p.77, Random House

I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works.

Haruki Murakami
Writing, Thinking, Novel
Source: yositeru.blogspot.com

I never made any plan before writing, however I succeeded. I enjoyed writing with excitement ,"what happen on the next page?"

Haruki Murakami
Writing, Pages, Next
Source: yositeru.blogspot.com

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
Writing, Imagination, Chamber Music
Source: www.bookbrowse.com

Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.

Haruki Murakami
Book, Writing, Thinking
FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Apr 02, 2015

I always write my novels with music (I don't listened to the music seriously.) Music seems to encourage me.

Haruki Murakami
Writing, Novel, Seems
Source: yositeru.blogspot.com

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