A state of chronic powerlessness eats away at a person.
Never let the darkness or negativity outside affect your inner self. Just wait until morning comes and the bright light will drown out the darkness.
Fate seems to be taking me in some even stranger directions.
Don’t let thoughts of me hold you back. Just do what you want to do. Otherwise, I might end up taking you with me, and that is the one thing I don’t want to do. I don’t want to interfere with your life.
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.