恋愛は一種の創作である。

We Orientals create beauty by generating shadows in places that are nothing special.

The mastery of writing is ultimately an aesthetics, and it comes down to whether one can create one's own style.

History is a chain of wills attempting to transmit something.

-- Yasushi Inoue

Writing is the work above all other work.

-- Ichiyo Higuchi

If I can make even one person happy in my lifetime, that is my own happiness.

-- Yasunari Kawabata

Within the motive for crime lies society's contradiction.

-- Seicho Matsumoto

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

-- Thomas Mann

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

-- Ernest Hemingway