"Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.“

-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 father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it."

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"I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else."

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"Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don't need a partner to go running, you don't need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers."

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"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."

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"You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you."

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"I get up early in the morning, 4 o'clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that's enough. In the afternoon, I run."

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