Murakami 4/11

Die New York Times hatte vor kurzem ein kleines Feature über Haruki Murakami, interessant ist vor allem sein Lebens- bzw. Schreibstil:

He wrote “Kafka [on the Shore]” in six months, starting, as he usually does, without a plan. He spent one year revising it. He follows a strict regimen. Going to bed around 9 p.m. – he never dreams, he said – he wakes up without an alarm clock around 4 a.m. He immediately turns on his Macintosh and writes until 11 a.m., producing every day 4,000 characters, or the equivalent of two to three pages in English.
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“I write the same amount every day without any day off,” he said. “I absolutely never look back and go forward. I hear Hemingway was like that.”
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Unlike Hemingway, Mr. Murakami leads a healthy lifestyle. In the afternoons, to build up his stamina to keep writing, he works out for one or two hours.