Perhaps I’m just too painstaking a type of person, but I can’t grasp much of anything without putting down my thoughts in writing.
You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.
I’ve run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the scenery along the route and the warmth of the people’s support. I feel happier every time I enter this marathon.
Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.
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.
It is hard to be an individual in Japan.
When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say.
You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.
Every writer has his writing technique – what he can and can’t do to describe something like war or history. I’m not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.
I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something.
I’m a writer. I don’t support any war. That’s my principle.
I’m not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years.
Most near-future fictions are boring. It’s always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy.
A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.
Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.
I didn’t read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.
I had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn’t have to write for my living.
I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.
I used to run a full marathon in three hours and 25 or 26 minutes. Not any more.
I’m a writer, not a professional runner. It’s fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.