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NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLERAninsightful look into the mind of a master storytellerand a unique look at the craft of writingfrom the beloved and bestselling author of 1Q84 Norwegian Woodand What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

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Aspiring writers and readers who have long wondered where the mysterious novelist gets his ideas and what inspires his strangely surreal worlds will be fascinated by thisengaging book from the internationally bestselling author Haruki Murakami now shares with readers his thoughts on the role of the novel in our society his own origins as a writer and his musings on the sparks of creativity that inspire other writers artists and musicians

Here are the personal details of a life devoted to craft the initial moment at a Yakult Swallows baseball game when he suddenly knew he could write a novel the importance of memory what he calls a writers mental chest of drawers the necessity of loneliness patience and his daily running routine the seminal role a carrier pigeon played in his career and more

What I want to say is that in a certain sense while the novelist is creating a novel he is simultaneously being created by the novel as well Haruki Murakami