She might be a great person, but life's so much bigger than just loving someone. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
To see the best before I have properly begun would be somewhat premature. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Love isn't about when you first meet. It's about the many, many years you spend together, when you're trying to keep that… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
You say you’re sure? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple? — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“Plenty of couples, they start off loving each other, then get tired of each other, end up hating each other. Sometimes though… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
We all live inside bodies that will deteriorate. But when you look at human beings, they're capable of very decent things: love,… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“Why should one not enjoy in a light-hearted sort of way stories of ladies and gentlemen who fall in love and express… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“I needed to get familiar with sex, and it would be just as well to practise first with a boy I didn't… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
If you were a boy and a girl and you were in love with each other, really, properly in love, and if… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“But you play that passage like it's the -memory- of love. You're so young, yet you know desertion, abandonment. That's why you… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
It never occurred to me that our lives, until then so closely interwoven, could unravel and separate over a thing like that.… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“That was the only time, as I stood there, looking at that strange rubbish, feeling the wind coming across those empty fields,… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“Your wound, your silly little wound! That's your real love, Leo, that wound, the one true love of your life! I know… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“But what is the sense in forever speculating what might have happened had such and such a moment turned out differently? One… — 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
