#know

The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal. ↗

— Alice Munro

#feel #i #i feel #know #learned

My heroes don't have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don't know how, so they talk to themselves. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#heroes #how #know #other #people

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#am #before #book #books #die

I don't know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#books #five #four #good #hope

To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going. ↗

— Joe Namath

#going #know #leader #make #nobody

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it's not imagination. It's just a way of watching. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#call #express #fiction #how #i

Many people tell me that they don 't know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That's good. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#books #complicated #dark #feel #finish

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 feel that people I trusted - I don't know who, on what level - have let me down, and I think they have behaved disgracefully, and it's for them to pay. And I think, frankly, that I'm the best person to see it through. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#best #down #feel #frankly #i

I love making stuff. There's a joy in having the first molecule of an idea, then testing it in front of audiences at secret shows that people only know about the day before. I videotape those, study them, enjoy being in the character and figuring out the movie. ↗

— Mike Myers

#audiences #before #being #character #day