Haruki Murakami Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

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

“It is hard to be an individual in Japan.”

“Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy.”

“Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.”

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

“If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.”

“I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.”

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

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

“Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.”