Haruki Murakami Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

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  If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

  Haruki Murakami

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Dec 08, 2014

• A deserted library in the morning - there's something about it that really gets to me. All possible words and ideas are there, resting peacefully.

  Haruki Murakami

  Inspiring, Rest In Peace, Morning

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Mar 31, 2011

• I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel

  Haruki Murakami

  Book, Writing, Long

• When I was little, I had this science book. There was a section on 'What would happen to the world if there was no friction?' Answer: 'Everything on earth would fly into space from the centrifugal force of revolution.' That was my mood.

  Haruki Murakami

  Book, Science, Space

• To be able to talk to your heart’s content about a book you like with someone who feels the same way about it is one of the greatest joys that life can offer.

  Haruki Murakami

  Book, Writing, Heart

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Apr 30, 2014

• If you miss the bus, miss the train, you’d be left behind. So everyone says, let’s get on the train, let’s get on the bus and go faster and get rich... I just didn’t like that kind of lifestyle. I love to read books, to listen to music.

  Haruki Murakami

  Book, Missing, Kind

• Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you

  Haruki Murakami

  Book, Answers, Happened

• I began to draw an invisible boundary between myself and other people. No matter who I was dealing with. I maintained a set distance, carefully monitoring the person’s attitude so that they wouldn’t get any closer. I didn’t easily swallow what other people told me. My only passions were books and music

  Haruki Murakami

  Attitude, Distance, Book

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Dec 17, 2011

• But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o'clock in the morning.

  Haruki Murakami

  Morning, Loneliness, Book

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jan 01, 2017

• You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories have any actual importance or not, it doesn't matter as far as the maintenance of life is concerned. They're all just fuel. Advertising fillers in the newspaper, philosophy books, dirty pictures in a magazine, a bundle of ten-thousand-yen bills: when you feed 'em to the fire, they're all just paper.

  Haruki Murakami

  Memories, Philosophy, Dirty

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Oct 20, 2014

• I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.

  Haruki Murakami

  Book, Reading, Ordinary

  "IQ84". Book by Haruki Murakami, 2010.

• I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of person who doesn’t find it painful to be alone. I find spending an hour or two every day running alone, not speaking to anyone, as well as four or five hours alone at my desk, to be neither difficult nor boring. I’ve had this tendency ever since I was young, when, given a choice, I much preferred reading books on my own or concentrating on listening to music over being with someone else. I could always think of things to do by myself.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Book, Reading

• The good thing about writing books is that you can dream while you are awake. If it’s a real dream, you cannot control it. When writing the book, you are awake; you can choose the time, the length, everything. I write for four or five hours in the morning and when the time comes, I stop. I can continue the next day. If it’s a real dream, you can’t do that.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Morning, Real

• When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a special odor of the knowledge and emotions that for ages have been calmly resting between the covers. Breathing it in, I glance through a few pages before returning each book to its shelf.

  Haruki Murakami

  Book, Breathing, Smell

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Sep 08, 2014

• 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 like to read books. I like to listen to music.

  Haruki Murakami

  Book, Listening To Music

  "Haruki Murakami: 'I took a gamble and survived'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2011.

• I didn't have much to say to anybody but kept to myself and my books. With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw it's fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.

  Haruki Murakami

  Book, Eye, Enough

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Sep 24, 2015

• I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished.

  Haruki Murakami

  Book, Writing, Years

• There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of intellectual refugees.

  Haruki Murakami

  Book, Intellectual, Window

• Nights without work I spend with whisky and books.

  Haruki Murakami

  Book, Night, Whisky

• 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

• The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but I had no such ambition. There was nothing I wanted to be.

  Haruki Murakami

  Book, Ambition, Dorms

• Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in school, where I'd keep the book hidden so I could read during class. Before long I bought a small stereo and spent all my time in my room, listening to jazz records. But I had almost no desire to talk to anyone about the experience I gained through books and music. I felt happy just being me and no one else. In that sense I could be called a stack-up loner.

  Haruki Murakami

  Book, Reading, School

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Oct 09, 2015

• The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before. Books and music were my best friends. I had a couple of good friends at school, but never met anyone I could really speak my heart to. We'd just make small talk, play soccer together. When something bothered me, I didn't talk with anyone about it. I thought it over all by myself, came to a conclusion, and took action alone. Not that I really felt lonely. I thought that's just the way things are. Human beings, in the final analysis, have to survive on their own.

  Haruki Murakami

  Soccer, Lonely, Couple

• It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.

  Haruki Murakami

  Book, Way

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