"The book, which is a very personal guide to fiction writing peppered with biography and opinion, contains a handful of strange, and strangely revealing, moments such as these, when his experiences read more like passages from his novels than fact." https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/nov/06/novelist-as-a-vocation-by-haruki-murakami-review-the-secrets-behind-the-literary-phenomenon