I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life. - Haruki Murakami 2 Share Now -
I've run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the scenery along the route and the warmth of the people's support. I feel happier every time I enter this marathon. - Haruki Murakami 3 Share Now -
Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don't need a partner to go running, you don't need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers. - Haruki Murakami 4 Share Now -
My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it. - Haruki Murakami 5 Share Now -
I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else. - Haruki Murakami 6 Share Now -
I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it's not imagination. It's just a way of watching. - Haruki Murakami 7 Share Now -
I get up early in the morning, 4 o'clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that's enough. In the afternoon, I run. - Haruki Murakami 8 Share Now -
You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you. - Haruki Murakami 9 Share Now -
Young people these days don't trust anything at all. They want to be free. - Haruki Murakami 10 Share Now -
