Haruki Murakami Quotes About Literature

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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.

    "What Haruki Murakami talks about". Interview with Heidi Benson, www.sfgate.com. October 26, 2008.
  • 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.

    Source: www.bookbrowse.com
  • Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.

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

  • My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life… Not that I knew what I wanted in life - I didn’t. I loved reading novels to distraction, but didn’t write well enough to be a novelist; being an editor or a critic was out, too, since my tastes ran to the extremes. Novels should be for pure personal enjoyment, I decided, not part of your work or study. That’s why I didn’t study literature

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