Famous Quotes / Kazuo Ishiguro
27 Quotations by Kazuo Ishiguro
- 1. As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually h ...
- 2. By mimicking the way memory works, a writer can actually write in a fluid way-one solid scene doesn' ...
- 3. I can't write these marvellous sentences like Martin Amis or Salman Rushdie that crackle with vitali ...
- 4. I don't have a deep link with England like, say, Jonathan Coe or Hanif Kureishi might demonstrate. F ...
- 5. I felt I had almost written myself into a corner. You could say I'd rewritten the same novel three t ...
- 6. I had been plunged into a different world. I found myself spending half my time answering weird ques ...
- 7. I really had to protect the relationships that were valuable to me. I had been with Lorna since befo ...
- 8. I still have a suspicion of charity and think the state has a role to play in many areas. And althou ...
- 9. I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I ...
- 10. I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend t ...
- 11. I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought ...
- 12. I went many years without even associating Nagasaki with the atomic bomb. Then in the 1980s, when th ...
- 13. I work very regular hours, roughly 9 to 5:30. I think I have it much easier than a lot of parents. I ...
- 14. I'm only 50, but I certainly feel time is running out for me in an urgent sense. It is not that I wi ...
- 15. If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them.
- 16. It is a protected world. To some extent at least you have to shield children from what you know and ...
- 17. Nagasaki is not just a few hazy images. I remember it as a real chunk of my life.
- 18. People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure ...
- 19. The book was at a reasonably high position on the New York Times... before I was in the country. I t ...
- 20. The idea of a successful novel was something that was reviewed in the Observer and then sank without ...