It was at a baseball stadium in April 1978, while watching a match that bestselling Japanese author Haruki Murakami decided to become a writer. "The satisfying crack when the bat met the ball resounded throughout Jingu Stadium. Scattered applause rose around me. In that instant, for no reason and on no grounds whatsoever, the thought suddenly struck me: I think I can write a novel," Murakami wrote in 'The Birth of My Kitchen Table Fiction' in 2015.
It was on his way back home, when Murakami bought a fountain pen for himself and began writing his first book. Six months later, he finished writing his debut novel 'Hear the Wind Sing' and the rest, as they say, is history.
