Haruki Murakami Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TimeCreativePeopleYouSayWant

If you can write any way and it's working out, just bow down in gratitude.

Jennifer Egan

GratitudeYouDownWayWriteOut

I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before.

Robert Mapplethorpe

LookingUnexpectedNeverThingsSeen

I never thought to ever ask for money. I was so stupid.

Anna Nicole Smith

MoneyStupidThoughtNeverAskEver

Some people prefer a world where we're all equally talented in everything. Whether you prefer that world or not, I don't think that world exists.

Angela Duckworth

PeopleWorldThinkYouSome People

The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.

John Sununu

BusinessGovernmentAmericanCreate

People, when they go on stage, tend to be animated and try to force things out instead of relaxing and bringing it in.

Ron White

PeopleGoTryStageOutForce

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.

Lucy Liu

WorkHurtYouKindChainsGoing

On average, it takes as much as $100 million in paid media for a brand to be a household name in America. Marketing partnerships are the best form of off-balance sheet financing one can ever find. Smart startups use this technique to scale their companies and build their brand equity.

Jay Samit

BestSmartBrandNamePartnerships

Where I live in south London, it is a very Tory area, so a Labour vote is a wasted vote. My leanings would certainly be not to vote Tory.

Dominic Holland

LiveVoteLondonWhereWastedWould

When the show's in production, we work for three weeks at a time and then take a week off.

Drew Carey

WorkTimeWeekThreeProductionOff

It's so rare to get all of your muscles firing at once. That's what I look for in any role.

Chris Pine

LookRareMusclesGetRoleYour

I think people who make movies and have invested a lot of money in them get frightened that if they challenge an audience they are going to repel them. And I think the opposite; it's really true.

Claire Danes

ChallengeMoneyPeopleThinkMovies

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