“What I Talk About When I Talk about Running”  Haruki Murakami

Murakami believes that “most of what I know about writing I’ve learned through running every day.” Specifically, he believes that writing requires, in order of priority, talent, focus and endurance — all of which find their complements in the habit of running. Writing, he thinks, is “an unhealthy type of work” because it brings the author face to face with the “toxin that lies deep down in all humanity” and without which “no creative activity in the real sense can take place.”

His amusing desirous epithet:

Haruki Murakami
1949-20**
Writer (and Runner)
At Least He Never Walked

via NYT Book Review

So the consensus? Onward to penciling in the next marathon type goal in 2010… whatever that might be. And more writing from moi, cross my heart. That one’s in permanent ink.