Haruki Murakami 2004 · Japan
Wake & write the novel
04:00–09:30 · Estimated
Estimated by typical tue. 09:30 uses the midpoint of the stated working duration.Source timing: Wake at 04:00; work for five to six hours.
“work for five to six hours”
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
He describes repeating this during novel-writing periods.
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.