Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I dont think so… I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games. – Haruki Murakami
You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you. – Haruki Murakami
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
I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life. – Haruki Murakami