Haruki Murakami 2004 · Japan
Read & listen to music
After exercise · Estimated placement
Estimated by typical tue. 16:00 shows the sequence, without an invented duration.Source timing: After afternoon exercise, before bedtime.
“read a bit”
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
Reading and music follow exercise.
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.