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Haruki Murakami Quotes

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.

Haruki Murakami

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Good History War Writing Feel Kind

In tribal Botswana, I received some woven necklaces and a handmade bow with three poison arrows. It's framed and hanging on the wall in my living room and is, without a doubt, one of my favorite possessions.

Andrew Zimmern

Doubt Wall Three Living Room Poison

I realize that I'm in the top one percent of the world. I've traveled a lot. I've seen immense poverty in the world, and I can't live with everything I've had and be comfortable with everything I have unless I do something for the rest of the world.

Andie MacDowell

Live World Rest Poverty Traveled

It's in my own interest - it's in everybody's interest - to have streets that are safe, children that are educated, and drug use that's diminished, crimes that are not affecting us.

Jeffrey Skoll

Children My Own Educated Streets Own

This is life we've been given, made to be lived out, so... live out loud.

Steven Curtis Chapman

Life Live Out Lived Been Made

I wanted to figure out a way of living where I didn't have to be in an office every day.

Ruth Reichl

Day Every Day Living Way Office Out

Fashion has underscored the interchangeability of men for a long time, maybe from the outset.

Rumaan Alam

Time Men Fashion Long Long Time

I've lived for 10 years in Switzerland, so I speak German.

Martina Hingis

Speak Years Switzerland Lived German

You have to be patient, efficient with your moves, and attuned to what's happening with your body physically. The key is not to rush or panic. You wait and wait and wait - and then strike.

Luke Rockhold

Wait Key You Body Strike Your Body

I led a comfortable life, went to good schools and was privileged in many ways, but my father worked hard. We never considered ourselves rich.

Joseph M. Kyrillos

Life Good Father Rich Never Hard

So many people have told me that 'Wicked' is their first musical ever and that they're hooked for life. I'm like, 'Wow, you really got it right when you picked this show to be your first one.'

Colin Donnell

Life People Me You First Right

It's an odd situation: I could not write about someone for whom I felt no affection or admiration.

Claire Tomalin

Someone Situation Affection Write

The discovery of streptomycin as a product of a rather obscure group of microorganisms, the actinomycetes, led to the study of these organisms as potential producers of other chemotherapeutic substances.

Selman Waksman

Potential Discovery Group Obscure