#kin

Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all the time late into the night. I was very excited when I started making a living out of my writing, and I decided, 'I will live in nothing but an absolutely healthy way.' ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#air #bar #became #before #center

I collect records. And cats. I don't have any cats right now. But if I'm taking a walk and I see a cat, I'm happy. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#cat #cats #collect #happy #i

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

— Haruki Murakami

#kind #language #make #make up #new

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

#did #first #fond #i #kind

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. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#father #fought #generation #happened #i

I'm not looking for a legacy, and you'll never shut up the critics. I've been around 50 years. When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#been #catalyst #change #critics #got

If the head man in a company is not working 12 hours a day, doing things, taking risks, but also standing with his people in the trenches at the most difficult of times, then the company loses something. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#company #day #difficult #doing #head

If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection. ↗

— Marc Newson

#emotional #familiar #feel #gives #important

I took business classes as a back up but I made movies all the time. I would get my classes done in two days and then spend the rest of the time making my movies. ↗

— Dennis Muren

#back up #business #classes #days #done

It's harder for me to work on a Forrest Gump kind of movie, where everything is invisible. ↗

— Dennis Muren

#harder #invisible #kind #me #movie