#write

I thought, if ever there were a time to write a book about hope, it's now. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#book #ever #hope #i #now

I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#i #principle #support #war #writer

I'd love to write a country album with Adele. ↗

— Marcus Mumford

#country #i #love #write

I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#guy #i #just #myself #think

A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement. To act, an actor has to have words. A stage. a camera turning. ↗

— Paul Muni

#actor #attic #bus #camera #cement

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

A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#fortunate #his #lifetime #maybe #novels

I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It's a parallel thing in me. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#i #just #me #parallel #realized

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'm a writer, not a professional runner. It's fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#fun #helps #i #me #need