Japanese - Writer | January 12, 1949 -
Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don't think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.
Haruki Murakami
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When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese.
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In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.
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I don't want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.
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I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.
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My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.
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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.
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I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven't belonged to any company or any system. It isn't easy to live like this in Japan.
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Young people these days don't trust anything at all. They want to be free.
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When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.
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It's true that at the time I was fond of Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and it was from them that I learned about this kind of simple, swift-paced style, but the main reason for the style of my first novel is that I simply did not have the time to write sustained prose.
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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.
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