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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 get up early in the morning, 4 oclock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, thats enough. In the afternoon, I run. – 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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Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasnt a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful. – Jack Vance

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Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory. – Emile M. Cioran

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Nowadays peoples visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will. – Robert Doisneau

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