#thing

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#happiest #life #my life #things

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#because #cats #confidence #could #even

I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#am #country #feel #i #i am

I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#else #father #i #japanese #just

I'm not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years. I don't get bored. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#bored #doing #fast #get #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 physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#be strong #course #day #every #every day

Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don't need a partner to go running, you don't need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#find #go #i #i can #just

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#love #love is #oneself #other #real

I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#being #daresay #holy #i #made