“You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough.”
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Haruki Murakami is a Japanese writer and translator. His works of fiction and non-fiction have garnered him critical acclaim, and he is the sixth recipient of the Franz Kafka Prize for his novel Kafka on the Shore. He is considered an important figure in postmodern literature, and The Guardian praised him as one of the "world's greatest living novelists." ([Source][1].) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruki_Murakami
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“You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough.”
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“I write weird stories. I don't know why I like weirdness so much. Myself, I'm a very realistic person. I don't trust anything New Age -- or reincarnation, dreams, Tarot, horoscopes. I don't...”
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“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. S...”
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“Dreaming is the day job of novelists, but sharing our dreams is a still more important task for us. We cannot be novelists without this sense of sharing something.”
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“I love pop culture -- the Rolling Stones, the Doors, David Lynch, things like that. That's why I said I don't like elitism.”
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“Writing things was important, wasn't it? Nakata asked. 'Yes, it was. The process of writing was important. Even though the finished product is completely meaningless.”
“Yo no sueño. O no recuerdo los sueños, pero mi literatura está llena de ellos; los imagino. Un amigo psiquiatra me decía: ‘Escribes, no tienes que soñar”
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“Or maybe that’s what it’s all about: this religion’s substance is its lack of substance. In McLuhanesque terms, the medium is the message. Some people might find that cool.” “McLuhanesque?”...”
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“In ancient times people weren't just male or female, but one of three types: male/male, male/female, or female/female. In other words, each person was made out of the components of two peopl...”
“It's just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me.”
“Las cosas fluyen hacia donde tienen que fluir, y por más que te esfuerces e intentes hacerlo lo mejor posible, cuando llega el momento de herir a alguien lo hieres. La vida es así.”
“Tendencies. Yougottendencies. Soevenifyoudideverythingoveragain, yourwholelife, yougottendenciestodojustwhatyoudid, alloveragain. -The Sheep Man.”
“My grandpa always said asking a question is embarrass for a moment but not asking a question is embarrasing for a life time”
“Što sam stariji, to polako ali sve jasnije shvaćam da su te vrste boli i patnje nužan dio života. Razmislite li o tome, shvatit ćete da je to tako jer se ljudi razlikuju jedni od drugih po t...”
“Tako činjenica da sam ja ja i nitko drugi postaje jedna od mojih najvećih prednosti, Emocionalna patnja cijena je koju osoba plaća da bi bila nezavisna.”
“Na autocesti života čovjek se ne može baš uvijek nalaziti u traku za brzu vožnju. Ipak, ne želim opetovano ponavljati iste grške. Najbolje je učiti na pogreškama i to pokazati na djelu kad s...”
“Ponavljajući vježbe vaši mišići će shvatiti poruku koju im šaljete, kao i da takav i toliki napor očekujete od njih. Naši mišići vrlo su savjesni. Sve dok se pridržavamo valjanog postupka, o...”
“Većinu onoga što znam o pisanju naučio sam zahvaljujući svakodnevnom trčanju. To su sasvim praktične, tjelesne lekcije. Dokle mogu forsirati samog sebe? Koliko odmora mi je potrebno, a kolik...”
“...nezdravoj duši potrebno je zdravo tijelo.”
“I have to understand it, accept it, before it's too late.”