Quote by Haruki Murakami
I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express mys

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, its not imagination. Its just a way of watching. – Haruki Murakami

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Team sports arent my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you dont need a partner to go running, you dont need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers. – Haruki Murakami

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I didnt want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think thats a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. Im proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it. – Haruki Murakami

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The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure. – Geraldine Brooks

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Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance. – E. T. Bell

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My books are elegiac in the sense that theyre odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination. – Richard Russo

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Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark. – Annie Dillard

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