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Yes, it was. The process of writing was important. Even though the finished product is meaningless. — Haruki Murakami

No matter how much enthusiasm and effort you put into writing, if you totally lack literary talent you can forget about being a novelist. — Haruki Murakami

All the same, writing honestly is very difficult. The more I try to be honest, the farther my words sink into darkness. — Haruki Murakami

I knew little about short story writing then so it was rough going, but I did find the experience very memorable. — Haruki Murakami

I always write my novels with music (I don't listened to the music seriously.) Music seems to encourage me. — Haruki Murakami

I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory. — Haruki Murakami

I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love. — Haruki Murakami

I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence, enjoying the style. If I don't enjoy the writing, I stop. — Haruki Murakami

There's no such thing as a perfect piece of writing. Just as there's no such thing as perfect despair. So — Haruki Murakami

I placed the highest priority on the sort of life that lets me focus on writing, not associating with all the people around me. — Haruki Murakami

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair. — Haruki Murakami

Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end. — Haruki Murakami

You get right down to it, writing is no means to self-help. It's scarcely a passing attempt at self-help. — Haruki Murakami

The good thing about writing book is that you can dream while you are awake ... — Haruki Murakami

When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say. — Haruki Murakami

Writing a novel is like having a dream. — Haruki Murakami

Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves. — Haruki Murakami

If writers only wrote about things everybody knew, what the hell would be the point of writing? — Haruki Murakami

Perhaps I'm just too painstaking a type of person, but I can't grasp much of anything without putting down my thoughts in writing. — Haruki Murakami

You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough. — Haruki Murakami

Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context. — Haruki Murakami

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

It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life. — Haruki Murakami

Writing honestly is very difficult. The more I try to be honest, the farther my words sink into darkness."
-from "Hear the Wind Sing — Haruki Murakami

writing was like breathing. — Haruki Murakami

Thank you," she said. Then, as if writing a tiny footnote at the corner of a page, she added, "I might have a chance to see you again, someday. — Haruki Murakami

In the end, writing is not a full step toward self-healing, just a tiny, very tentative move in that direction. — Haruki Murakami

I realize that all I can place in the imperfect vessel of writing are imperfect memories and imperfect thoughts. — Haruki Murakami

I never made any plan before writing, however I succeeded. I enjoyed writing with excitement ,"what happen on the next page?" — Haruki Murakami

Music is my longtime friend. And I could never betray it. I listen to music while I'm writing. — Haruki Murakami

Like someone excitedly relating a story, only to find the words petering out, the path gets narrower the further I go, the undergrowth taking over. — Haruki Murakami

I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works. — Haruki Murakami

If you can't get it across in words, then it's better not to try. — Haruki Murakami

That's how it is with art. Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning are incapable of such writing. — Haruki Murakami

I love pop culture
the Rolling Stones, the Doors, David Lynch, things like that.
That's why I said I don't like elitism. — Haruki Murakami

Snow floated down every once in a while, but it was frail snow, like a memory fading into the distance. — Haruki Murakami

If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings. — Haruki Murakami

To him, writing was like breathing. — Haruki Murakami