Haruki Murakami 2004 · Japan
Go to bed
21:00 · Start only
“bed at nine p.m.”
Short verbatim excerpt · Haruki Murakami · interview by John Wray
Open the original for the surrounding passage.
The Art of Fiction No. 182
The Paris Review 170 · Summer 2004 · publisher’s freely accessible reprint, 3 August 2021
Question about the structure of a typical workday
Passage: Typical-workday answer
Timing & context
His stated bedtime during this routine.
This schedule applies while writing a novel. Afternoon hours are illustrative; running and swimming are alternatives, sometimes combined.
2004 represents the routine described in his Paris Review interview that year, specifically during sustained work on a novel. Japan is a broad location: the interview was held at his Tokyo office, but the text does not locate this novel-writing routine there.