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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Every writer has his writing technique – what he can and cant do to describe something like war or history. Im not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing. – Haruki Murakami

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History
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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 fathers generation. Its a kind of inheritance, the memory of it. – Haruki Murakami

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War
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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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Morning
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Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine. – Rita Dove

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Imagination

It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care. – Paul Farmer

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Imagination

We can live with lots of things, but we cant live without imagination, we cant live without hope. – Ariel Dorfman

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Imagination

I always believe its better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do. – Trevor Nunn

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Imagination

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Among creatures born into chaos, a majority will imagine an order, a minority will question the order, and the rest will be pronounced insane. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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When my dad died a lot of songs came, and theyre still coming. – Rosanne Cash

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