It seems to me, though, that you always understand very well what I can't say very well. Trouble is I end up being even worse at saying things well. Haruki Murakami More Quotes by Haruki Murakami More Quotes From Haruki Murakami I'm not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years. Haruki Murakami thinker years Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy. Haruki Murakami dark rain people You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored. They are disappointed. They are expecting a more dynamic, creative, artistic thing to say. What I want to say is: you have to be practical. Haruki Murakami bored writing people A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime. Haruki Murakami twelve lifetime writing Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life. Haruki Murakami concentration I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else. Haruki Murakami literature teacher father Sitting on the floor, I'd replay the past in my head. Funny, that's all I did, day after day after day for half a year, and I never tired of it. What I'd been through seemed so vast, with so many facets. Vast, but real, very real, which was why the experience persisted in towering before me, like a monument lit up at night. And the thing was, it was a monument to me. Haruki Murakami tired real past Thanks to the long days of rain, the blades of grass glowed with a deep-green luster, and they gave off the smell of wildness unique to things that sink their roots into the earth. Haruki Murakami unique roots rain Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go to work. Somewhere out there, a volcano might blow, Israeli commandos might decimate a Palestinian village. I couldn't stop it. I was going to sleep. Haruki Murakami volcanoes blow sleep I'm an average person. Is just that I like reading. Haruki Murakami average-person reading average One impossible day, of an impossible month, of an impossible year. Haruki Murakami months impossible years I can never say what I want to say, it's been like this for a while now. I try to say something but all I get are wrong words - the wrong words or the exact opposite words from what I mean. I try to correct myself, and that only makes it worse. I lose track of what I was trying to say to begin with. It's like I'm split in two and playing tag with myself. One half is chasing this big, fat post. The other me has the right words, but this can't catch her. Haruki Murakami opposites two mean You couldn’t begin to imagine who I am, where I’m going, or what I’m about to do, All of you are trapped here. You can’t go anywhere, forward or back. But I’m not like you. I have work to do. I have a mission to accomplish. And so, with your permission, I shall move ahead. Haruki Murakami imagine who-i-am moving She gave me this look – she might have been watching from a lifeboat as the ship went down. Or maybe it was the other way around. Haruki Murakami might looks way It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy. Haruki Murakami moments years As long as an individual's alive, he will undergo experience in some form or other, and those experiences are stored up instant by instant. To stop experiencin' is to die. Haruki Murakami individual alive long The curious thing about individuals is that their singularity always goes beyond any category or generalization in the book. Haruki Murakami curious individual book This was never any place I was meant to be. This isn’t a place for me. Haruki Murakami were-meant-to-be meant-to-be I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge. Haruki Murakami library quiet book You said that the mind is like the wind but perhaps it is we who are like the wind Knowing nothing, simply blowing through. Never aging, never dying. Haruki Murakami knowing-nothing mind wind
