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I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven't belonged to any company or any system. It isn't easy to live like this in Japan.
Haruki Murakami
Myself
Own
Live
System
Independent
Easy
My Own
Since
Like
Been
Any
Graduated
Japan
Company
Utterly
Belonged
When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.
Haruki Murakami
Wait
Write
Come
Any
Just
Story
Plan
Start
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
Morning
Three
Sit
Enough
Run
Dream
Hours
Up
Get
Just
After
Afternoon
Four
Early
Desk
I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something.
Haruki Murakami
Responsibility
Country
Worrying
About
Something
Feel
Am
Novelist
I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.
Haruki Murakami
Style
Own
Way
My Own
Models
Literature
Japanese
Created
My heroes don't have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don't know how, so they talk to themselves.
Haruki Murakami
People
Heroes
Other
Tell
Something
Know
Talk
How
Anything
Themselves
Special
Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.
Haruki Murakami
Life
Freedom
Values
Most
Many
Among
Appreciate
I've been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It's natural.
Haruki Murakami
Natural
Getting Older
Year
Older
Every
Worse
Running
Record
More
Been
Years
Than
Getting
Full
Marathon
I used to run a full marathon in three hours and 25 or 26 minutes. Not any more.
Haruki Murakami
Three
Run
Minutes
More
Hours
Any
Full
Used
Marathon
Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.
Haruki Murakami
Morning
Me
Writing
Three
Only
Through
Mere
Matches
Produce
Root
Who
Humans
When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say.
Haruki Murakami
You
Natural
Writing
World
Everything
Say
Distinguish
Seems
Supernatural
Could
Between
Am
Real
George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don't want to write messages. I want to write good stories. I think of myself as a political person, but I don't state my political messages to anybody.
Haruki Murakami
Myself
Good
Political
Journalist
Half
Think
State
Percent
Good Stories
Write
Writer
Messages
George
George Orwell
Person
Anybody
Want
Fiction
Fiction Writer
Stories
Orwell
Sometimes I wonder why I'm a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I'm a successful writer.
Haruki Murakami
Sometimes
Definite
Something
Writer
Became
Wonder
Happened
Successful
Reason
Novelist
Now
Why
Right
Career
Whenever I write a novel, I have a strong sense that I am doing something I was unable to do before. With each new work, I move up a step and discover something new inside me.
Haruki Murakami
Work
Me
Strong
Before
Sense
Unable
Inside
Strong Sense
Something
Something New
Write
Step
New
Am
Doing
Discover
Up
Move
Whenever
Novel
Each
For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second basement. What I want to do is go down there, but still stay sane.
Haruki Murakami
Musicians
Down
Find
Stay
Something
Passage
Still
Go
Get
Want
Create
Really
Sane
Novelists
Downstairs
Basement
Second
Need
I try not to think about anything special while running. As a matter of fact, I usually run with my mind empty. However, when I run empty-minded, something naturally and abruptly crawls in sometime. That might become an idea that can help me with my writing.
Haruki Murakami
Me
Writing
Matter
Try
Mind
Become
Think
Run
Running
About
Something
Abruptly
Sometime
Fact
Idea
Empty
However
Anything
While
Might
Naturally
Help
Special
As long as possible, I would really like to complete one marathon per year. Though my time has been slowing down as I get older, it has become a very important part of my life.
Haruki Murakami
Life
Time
My Life
Long
Important
Become
Year
Down
Older
Complete
Though
Possible
Has-Been
Would
Slowing
Per
My Time
Part
Like
Important Part
Been
Very
Get
Really
Marathon
I was enjoying myself writing, because I don't know what's going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don't know at all what you're going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you're a kid and you're reading stories.
Haruki Murakami
Myself
You
Book
Writing
Ride
Reading
Corner
Kid
Find
Thrilling
Take
Know
Read
Because
Around
Going
Happen
Stories
Enjoying
I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory.
Haruki Murakami
History
Memories
Memory
Writing
Collective
Own
Think
My Own
Using
Plants exist in the weather and light rays that surround them - waving in the wind, shimmering in the sunlight. I am always puzzling over how to draw such things.
Hayao Miyazaki
Light
Plants
Weather
Wind
Waving
Draw
Sunlight
Rays
Puzzling
Over
Always
How
Am
Exist
Surround
Them
Such Things
Things
I like underwater life.
Hayao Miyazaki
Life
Like
Underwater
I am an animator. I feel like I'm the manager of a animation cinema factory. I am not an executive. I'm rather like a foreman, like the boss of a team of craftsmen. That is the spirit of how I work.
Hayao Miyazaki
Work
Cinema
Spirit
Boss
Rather
Factory
Animation
Animator
Feel
Like
Executive
How
Am
Foreman
Manager
Craftsmen
Team
I get inspiration from my everyday life.
Hayao Miyazaki
Life
Everyday Life
Everyday
Inspiration
Get
It would be wonderful if I could see the end of civilization during my lifetime.
Hayao Miyazaki
Wonderful
Would
Would-Be
See
Civilization
Could
Lifetime
End
If I Could
I can't do a film after having debated it. I am unable to do a film while discussing it with my team. I issue directives. I do not achieve it otherwise.
Hayao Miyazaki
Achieve
Otherwise
Unable
Having
Directive
Am
Issue
Debated
Discussing
After
While
Team
Film
If you're going to retire, retire early.
Hayao Miyazaki
You
Retire
Going
Early
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