3 December 2020 Haruki Murakami 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.
3 December 2020 Haruki Murakami Team sports aren’t my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don’t need a partner to go running, you don’t need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers.
3 December 2020 Haruki Murakami I’ve run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the scenery along the route and the warmth of the people’s support. I feel happier every time I enter this marathon.
3 December 2020 Haruki Murakami 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.
3 December 2020 Haruki Murakami I don’t know how many good books I still have in me I hope there are another four or five.
3 December 2020 Haruki Murakami Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don’t think so… I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.
3 December 2020 Haruki Murakami 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.
3 December 2020 Haruki Murakami 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.
3 December 2020 Haruki Murakami I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it’s not imagination. It’s just a way of watching.
3 December 2020 Haruki Murakami I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.
3 December 2020 Haruki Murakami I didn’t read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.
3 December 2020 Haruki Murakami 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.
3 December 2020 Haruki Murakami You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.
3 December 2020 Haruki Murakami Young people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.
3 December 2020 Haruki Murakami You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don’t have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don’t know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don’t know how much I pay in taxes.
