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My doubts stand in a circle around every word, I see them before I see the word, but what then! I do not see the word at all, I invent it.
Diaries
Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves.
1Q84
Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.
A Wild Sheep Chase
I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love.
After the Quake
Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.
Norwegian Wood
There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.
Hear the Wind Sing
The novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays
Essays