What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
After focus, the next most important thing for a novelist is, hands down, endurance.
Haruki Murakami • What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
running had entered the realm of the metaphysical.
Haruki Murakami • What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
I was pretty surprised, but people who knew me were even more surprised.
Haruki Murakami • What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.
Haruki Murakami • What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness.
Haruki Murakami • What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
one of the privileges given to those who’ve avoided dying young is the blessed right to grow old.
Haruki Murakami • What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
If I used being busy as an excuse not to run, I’d never run again.
Haruki Murakami • What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
You know what? I could try writing a novel. I still can remember the wide open sky, the feel of the new grass, the satisfying crack of the bat. Something flew down from the sky at that instant, and whatever it was, I accepted it.
Haruki Murakami • What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
I can pinpoint the exact moment when I first thought I could write a novel. It was around one thirty in the afternoon of April 1, 1978.