‘I want to open a window in their souls’: Haruki Murakami on the power of writing simply
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‘I want to open a window in their souls’: Haruki Murakami on the power of writing simply
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo
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“All creative activity is, to some extent, done partly with the intention to rectify or fix yourself. In other words, by relativizing yourself, by adapting your soul to a form that's different from what it is now, you can resolve— or sublimate— the contradictions, rifts, and distortions that inevitably crop up in the process of being alive. And if
... See moreAs I suspect is true of many who write for a living, as I write I think about all sorts of things. I don’t necessarily write down what I’m thinking; it’s just that as I write I think about things. As I write, I arrange my thoughts. And rewriting and revising takes my thinking down even deeper paths. No matter how much I write, though, I never reach
... See moreHaruki Murakami • What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
In the novelist’s profession, as far as I’m concerned, there’s no such thing as winning or losing. Maybe numbers of copies sold, awards won, and critics’ praise serve as outward standards for accomplishment in literature, but none of them really matter. What’s crucial is whether your writing attains the standards you’ve set for yourself.
Haruki Murakami • What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
