Haruki Murakami 2004 · Japan
Run or swim
Afternoon · Estimated placement
Estimated by typical tue. 14:00 is illustrative; exercise duration is unknown.Source timing: Afternoon, before reading and music.
“In the afternoon”
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
A 10 km run, 1,500 m swim, or both.
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.