Haruki Murakami Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• Learning another language is like becoming another person.

  Haruki Murakami

  Inspirational, Change, Learning

• Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.

  Haruki Murakami

  Things In Life, Language, Complicated

  "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage". Book by Haruki Murakami, April 12, 2013.

• If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.

  Haruki Murakami

  Want, Language, Kind

• She was a keen observer, a precise user of language, sharp-tongued and funny. She could stir your emotions. Yes, really, that's what she was so good at - stirring people's emotions, moving you. And she knew she had this power...I only realized later. At the time, I had no idea what she was doing to me.

  Haruki Murakami

  Moving, Ideas, People

• So for all that we might speak words in each other's vicinity, this could never develop into anything that could be called a conversation. It was as though we were speaking in different languages. If the Dalai Lama were on his deathbed and the jazz musician Eric Dolphy were to try to explain to him the importance of choosing one's engine oil in accordance with changes in the sound of the bass clarinet, that exchange might have been more worthwhile and effective than my conversations with Noboru Wataya.

  Haruki Murakami

  Oil, Trying, Musician

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle”, p.78, Random House

• It is my huge pleasure that my novels are translated into languages that are read among small numbers of people.

  Haruki Murakami

  Small Numbers, People, Language

  Source: yositeru.blogspot.com

• I've translated a lot of American literature into Japanese, and I think that what makes a good translator is, above all, a feel for language and also a great affection for the work you're translating. If one of those elements is missing the translation won't be worth much.

  Haruki Murakami

  Thinking, Missing, Elements

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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