”Can you possibly imagine how painful it is to suddenly have the one you love leave for no reason, how much it hurt your heart, how deeply it ripped you apart, how much you bled inside?”
-Haruki Murakami, The City and Its Uncertain Walls
The simplicity of Murakami is what gives him brilliance in his writing.
It’s no surprise that he is a celebrated and well-known author around the world, having sold millions of copies outside Japan and been translated into 50 different languages.
He might not be part of the trending topic on any social media, but he is a multi-award-winning and a contender for a Nobel Prize for Literature.
The one thing that also fascinated me is that his characters are ordinary people but with an extraordinary ability to use a sense of Magical Realism and Surrealism, which is why he is called a genius.
He said, coming from him, that when he started to write his first novel, which is Hear the Wind Sing, he didn’t have a proper education.
The only thing that strikes inspiration is when he watches the baseball game, and when the game ends, he comes home and begins writing.
Now, even this day at the age of 76, he continues running, which he talks about in his non-fiction/ memoir book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running.
Why? Because coming from him…
”I’ll be happy if running and I can grow old together.”
Mark Tacastacas 
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