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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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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Ive run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the scenery along the route and the warmth of the peoples support. I feel happier every time I enter this marathon. – Haruki Murakami

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Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling. – Henry David Thoreau

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Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is. – Yvonne Craig

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Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit. – Doris Day

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Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. Youre constantly depicting something that doesnt exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees. – Ron Perlman

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