Home » Quote » Haruki Murakami » „Whenever I get into something, I shut out everything else.“ „Whenever I get into something, I shut out everything else.“ — Haruki Murakami Related quotes „I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else.“ — Vladimir Nabokov „For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.“ — Ralph Waldo Emerson „See? This is why I'm not religious. I couldn't possibly keep my mouth shut long enough to get along with everyone else.“ — Jim Butcher „I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else. After all, what is a painter? He is a collector who gets what he likes in others by painting them himself. This is how I begin and then it becomes something else.“ — Pablo Picasso „I never could stand being forced to do something I didn't want to do at a time I didn't want to do it. Whenever I was able to do something I liked to do, though, when I wanted to do it, and the way I wanted to do it, I'd give it everything I had.“ — Haruki Murakami