Haruki Murakami Quotes About Style

Quotes about: Style

• Good style happens in one of two ways: the writer either has an inborn talent or is willing to work herself to death to get it.

  Haruki Murakami

  Writing, Two, Style

• In Japan they prefer the realistic style. They like answers and conclusions, but my stories have none. I want to leave them wide open to every possibility. I think my readers understand that openness.

  Haruki Murakami

  Thinking, Japan, Style

• I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence, enjoying the style. If I don't enjoy the writing, I stop.

  Haruki Murakami

  Writing, Style, Enjoy

• Whether in music or in fiction, the most basic thing is rhythm. Your style needs to have good, natural, steady rhythm, or people won't keep reading your work.

  Haruki Murakami

  Reading, People, Style

  "Jazz Messenger" by Haruki Murakami, www.nytimes.com. July 8, 2007.

• I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.

  Haruki Murakami

  Style, Literature, Way

• It's true that at the time I was fond of Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and it was from them that I learned about this kind of simple, swift-paced style, but the main reason for the style of my first novel is that I simply did not have the time to write sustained prose.

  Haruki Murakami

  Writing, Simple, Style

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