Haruki Murakami Quotes

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.

Haruki Murakami

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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There's just something about youth and comedy that go together. Maybe it's that foolishness, that silliness that you can get away with when you're younger, that you can't get away with when you're older.

Joe Flaherty

TogetherYouthComedyYouGoGet

I like to aim for significance over success because rarely can you be significant and also successful, but many people can be successful and not significant.

Alyson Stoner

SuccessPeopleYouAimOverBecause

The work itself is what motivates me. I like my own stuff, you know? I like the way it looks. I do it to please myself first.

Robert Crumb

WorkMyselfMeYouLooksKnow

I want to do films I can relate to emotionally.

Christian Slater

I CanWantRelateEmotionallyFilms

I like the idea of an enlightened principality. In the early eighteen-hundreds, in Germany, there were princes who built schools, streets, homes. I like that.

Brunello Cucinelli

EarlyStreetsIdeaWhoLikeBuilt

I've been asked what differentiates war literature as a category, and I don't think there is anything.

Phil Klay

WarThinkLiteratureAnythingBeen

I didn't really have an identity crisis because I really, really knew who I always wanted to be But I definitely had a lot of problems with my body. I was very skinny, and I guess my body was sort of pre-pubescent, but when I grew hips and thighs, I just didn't know where I was in the world. It was weird.

Petra Collins

IdentityWorldProblemsWeirdBody

My dad always told me that the principal reason he chose New Zealand to emigrate to after World War II was the high regard his father had for the Kiwis he encountered at Gallipoli.

Peter Jackson

FatherWarMeWorldNewPrincipal

People don't understand that that's really what it is. They're looking for a magic phone number or something. And to a certain extent, I understand that, because comedy is treated so much as a stepping stone by a lot of people.

Todd Barry

PeopleLookingComedyMagicStone

I grew up in a family struggling for work.

Rick Scott

WorkFamilyUpStrugglingGrew

Donald Trump I wouldn't trust as far as I could throw him.

Mark Cuban

TrustDonald TrumpHimThrowFar

To really boost your sense of self-efficacy, think of ways you could modify your usual tasks to suit your personal style.

Martha Beck

StyleThinkYouPersonalSuitSense

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