Haruki Murakami

Murakami is a Japanese novelist and short-story writer known for Norwegian Wood, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Kafka on the Shore. He also writes nonfiction, including Underground, based on interviews about the Tokyo subway attack, and essays about running.

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Japan · 2004

In his 2004 Paris Review interview, Murakami described this disciplined pattern specifically for periods of writing a novel. Early writing was followed by exercise, reading and music. The routine is located broadly in Japan; the interview does not identify the exact writing location.