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(Photo: Ole Jensen\/Corbis via Getty Images)<\/span><\/pre>\nMurakami respects daily routine a lot. He wakes up around 4 o\u2019clock, gets coffee, and starts to work. He writes about 5-6 hours, worth approximately around 10 pages of writings, then has his breakfast and goes for a jog, which is usually about 6 miles (9-10 km). And after that, from time to time, he can go for a swim as well. Sounds impressive! His words about daily routine to the \u201cNew York Magazine\u201d: \u201cI respect the daily routine. I get up early in the morning. I go to bed around nine o\u2019clock, unless the baseball game is still going. And I run or I swim. I\u2019m an ordinary guy\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\nH.M. believes that a good daily routine and discipline in a healthy lifestyle allow him to write his surrealistic, magical stories.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome writers led very unhealthy lives\u2014like Baudelaire. But, in my opinion, those days are gone. This is a very complicated world, and you have to be strong to survive, to get through the chaos. I became a writer when I was thirty years old, and I started running when I was thirty-two or thirty-three. I decided to start running every day because I wanted to see what would happen. I think life is a kind of laboratory where you can try anything. And in the end I think it was good for me, because I became tough.\u201d <\/em>(Interview to \u201cThe New Yorker\u201d Magazine,2019)<\/em><\/p>\nThis discipline decision also based on his past when he was an owner of the jazz club, named after his cat in his early years \u201cPeter Cat\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201c<\/em>Owning a jazz club, life was so disorderly and confusing \u2013 going to bed at three or four in the morning \u2013 so when I became a writer, I decided to live a very solid life: get up early, go to bed early, exercise every day.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\u00a0\u201cMy belief is that I should be strong physically in order to write strong things\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nH.M. also combines his jogging with one of his passions \u2013 cats.<\/p>\n
“How many cats do you have?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nNone at all. I go jogging around my house every morning and I regularly see three or four cats\u2014they are friends of mine. I stop and say hello to them and they come to me; we know each other very well.”<\/em><\/p>\nIt is great that people of art and culture in a present time go for health, mental and physical, and transmit that style to their fans and readers. On a question; what keeps H.M. healthy, his answer is simple and adorable:<\/p>\n
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(Credit:Photograph by Nathan Bajar \/ NYT \/ Redux)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n“Music and cats. They have helped me a lot.”<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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Sources:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\n- Treisman, D. (2019, May 16). The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami<\/i>. The New Yorker. https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/the-new-yorker-interview\/the-underground-worlds-of-haruki-murakami<\/span><\/li>\n
- Burkeman, O. (2018, October 11). Haruki Murakami: \u2018You have to go through the darkness before you get to the light.\u2019<\/i> The Guardian. https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2018\/oct\/11\/haruki-murakami-interview-killing-commendatore<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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