The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami

If you can write, you’re not fixed. You can be anybody else—you have that possibility.

I think life is a kind of laboratory where you can try anything.

I want to do is write serious, complicated, difficult things in a very easy style that is fluid and comfortable to read.

one, criticizing someone is easy; two, creating something original is very hard; three, but somebody’s got to do it.

The other side is usually a dark place?

Murakami in The New YorkerRead fiction and essays by the author.

Not necessarily. I think it has more to do with curiosity. If there is a door and you can open it and enter that other place, you do it. It’s just curiosity. What’s inside? What’s over there? So that’s what I do every day. When I’m writing a nove... See more

subtle stylist and a self-willed Everyman

I don’t research when I write novels, because imagination is my asset, my gift.

life is a kind of laboratory where you can try anything

I respect the daily routine