All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I grew up in Britain before it became a multicultural place, so in many ways I have a nostalgia for an England… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“... when people are getting poorer, and children are growing more hungry and sick all around you, it is simply not enough… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
To some extent, at least ,you have to shield children from what you know and drip-feed information to them. Sometimes that is… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
This is the big question that we all have about our children: How much, how soon, do we tell our children the… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
We always like to keep our children in a kind of bubble and censor the bad news about the world. We like… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“I was thinking about the rubbish, the flapping plastic in the branches, the shore-line of odd stuff caught along the fencing, and… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
After all, when we were children, when things went wrong, there wasn’t much we could do to help put it right. But… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up,… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“The colonel nodded. "Our childhood seems so far away now. All this" - he gestured out of the vehicle - "so much… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“That's most interesting. But I was no more a mind-reader then than today. I was weeping for an altogether different reason. When… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share
As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share
“About him and his wife voting for different parties. A few years ago that would have been unthinkable.” “No doubt.” “Quite extraordinary the things… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share
“But what is the sense in forever speculating what might have happened had such and such a moment turned out differently? One could presumably… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share
“Silence is just as likely to indicate the most profound ideas forming, the deepest energies being summoned.” — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share
“I don't know why, but it didn't seem an option for more than one of us to storm off, and I wanted to make… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share
Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share
He chose a certain path in life, it proved to be a misguided one, but there, he chose it, he can say that at… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share
“For however one may come in later years to reassess one’s achievements, it is always a consolation to know that one’s life has contained… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share
You're always in a rush, or else you're too exhausted to have a proper conversation. Soon enough, the long hours, the traveling, the broken… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share
I don't think it's any fun, even if you are one of the most respected authors in the world like Margaret Atwood, to keep… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share
I think it's quite difficult to understand what kind of life a writer leads. They might be millionaires, or they might be starving people. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share
“But this small episode is as good an illustration as any of the hazards of uttering witticisms. By the very nature of a witticism,… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share
There comes a point when you can more or less count the number of books you're going to write before you die. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share
My wife is the most savage critic. She doesn't feel intimidated by my reputation. As far as she's concerned, she's just criticising a boyfriend… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share
