“How wonderful it is to be able to write someone a letter! To feel like conveying your thoughts to a person, to sit at your desk and pick up a pen, to put your thoughts into words like this is truly marvelous.”

—  Haruki Murakami, book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

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Japanese author, novelist 1949

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