Haruki Murakami Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• Age certainly hadn't conferred any smarts on me. Character maybe, but mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russian writers have a way with aphorisms. They probably spend all winter thinking them up.

  Haruki Murakami

  Smart, Character, Winter

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Sep 25, 2015

• I have been told I've got a darkish personality. A few times." Takahashi swings his trombone case from his right shoulder to his left. Then he says, "It's not as if our lives are divided simply into light and dark. There's shadowy middle ground. Recognizing and understanding the shadows is what a healthy intelligence does. And to acquire a healthy intelligence takes a certain amount of time and effort. I don't think you have a particularly dark character.

  Haruki Murakami

  Character, Dark, Thinking

• Well, finally, the events I've been through have been tremendously complicated. All kinds of characters have come on the scene, and strange things have happened one after another, to the point where, if I try to think about them in order, I lose track.

  Haruki Murakami

  Character, Thinking, Order

• The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older.

  Haruki Murakami

  Pain, Character, Years

  "Norwegian Wood". Book by Haruki Murakami, Random House, pp. 152-153, 2011.

• Someone who can search for something is happy. Searching gives a meaning to life. Nowadays it’s not so easy to find something you might be looking for. The most important thing, however, is the search itself, the way you take. It’s not so important where it leads. that’s why my characters are always looking for something, maybe only a cat, a sheep or a wife, but that is at least the beginning of a story.

  Haruki Murakami

  Character, Cat, Sheep

• Adults need more complex narratives. They have their own narratives. The main characters are themselves.

  Haruki Murakami

  Character, Adults, Needs

  Source: yositeru.blogspot.com

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