Novelist as a Vocation

Murakami offers a refreshing, unromantic view towards the work of writing, revealing the difficulties and luck necessary in reaching the point of writing as a vocation. A lot of things have to fall in line for one to make it as a novelist, and not all of those things are in the hands of the writer. Regardless, Murakami's passion for writing is evident throughout the book and is contagious. Maybe the point of it all is to not focus so much on any dream of "success" but instead to focus on story itself.