Haruki Murakami Quotes

Every day I go to my study and sit at my desk and put the computer on. At that moment, I have to open the door. It's a big, heavy door. You have to go into the Other Room. Metaphorically, of course. And you have to come back to this side of the room. And you have to shut the door.

Haruki Murakami

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: japanese
  • Birth: January 12, 1949

Topics

MomentDayDoorYouEvery DayBack

If a minister can lead the Senate in prayer every day... what is so wrong with beginning every day of school with an ecumenical prayer?

Jim Webb

DayPrayerBeginningSchoolWrong

I am acting at university, and I have really enjoyed doing student drama.

Anna Popplewell

I AmDoingActingStudentDramaAm

A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood.

Amy Levy

BloodMayFleshMadeLoverCreature

I believe in my ability and my mental toughness.

Stefon Diggs

BelieveI BelieveToughnessAbility

I don't start a piece knowing exactly what effect it's going to have. There is a seed of an idea that I could never articulate, right at the beginning of the piece, literally like one cell.

Siobhan Davies

BeginningStartSeedNeverKnowing

I mean I'll be retired from rap, so what I'll be doin' in rap will be for fun.

Tone Loc

FunWillMeanRapRetiredDoin

I eat so much mayonnaise they were going to send me to the Mayo Clinic.

Tom Robbins

MeEatGoingSendMuchWere

I have always been a big fan of the BBC program 'Luther' with Idris Elba.

Rose Leslie

AlwaysBigBig FanBeenFanProgram

As a reader, I read quite widely.

Ruth Ware

ReadQuiteReaderWidely

There's a variety and depth to the song topics I get to write about in children's music and books: being able to write about things I wouldn't normally write about, like a disappointing pancake, or monsters or opposite day is really different than writing about heartbreak and relationships.

Lisa Loeb

MusicChildrenDayWritingSong

There's always a booming market somewhere in tech - you just have to find a good idea for that market.

Chieh Huang

GoodYouFindAlwaysGood IdeaJust

Every book that doesn't first have to get past a gatekeeper or two, or 10, before being put in front of the public will be worse.

Chris Pavone

PastBookWillFirstTwoGet

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