Haruki Murakami

I don't know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#books #five #four #good #hope

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#be different #because #different #everyone #famous

I get up early in the morning, 4 o'clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that's enough. In the afternoon, I run. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#afternoon #clock #desk #dream #early

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#appreciate #freedom #i #life #many

I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#i #principle #support #war #writer

It is hard to be an individual in Japan. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#individual #japan

My heroes don't have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don't know how, so they talk to themselves. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#heroes #how #know #other #people

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#everything #gets #got #how #keeps

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

#humans #includes #matches #me #mere

I'm not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#doing #fast #i #i am #interested