Haruki Murakami
"A revelation leaps over the borders of the everyday. A life without revelation is no life at all. What you need to do is move from reason that observes to reason that acts. That's what's critical. Do you have any idea what I'm talking about, you gold-plated whale of a dunce?"
-- Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
How Murakami became a novelist: In 1978 he was watching a baseball game at Jingu Stadium in Japan. As an American player, Dave Hilton, hit a double, a voice spoke to Murakami, telling him to go home and starting writing, that he could do it. He started work on his first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, right away. Some good Murakami links:
Posted by Harold Davis at February 15, 2005 01:57 PM
