“For 30 years now, he has lived a monkishly regimented life, each facet of which has been precisely engineered to help him produce his work. He runs or swims long distances almost every day, eats a healthful diet, goes to bed around 9 p.m. and wakes up, without an alarm, around 4 a.m. — at which point he goes straight to his desk for five to six hours of concentrated writing. (Sometimes he wakes up as early as 2.) He thinks of his office, he told me, as a place of confinement — ‘but voluntary confinement, happy confinement.'”
NY Times explores Murakami’s world — environment, influences, and beliefs — all of which exposes his boundless imagination, which he corrals in his structured days.
