“Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers, and no… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory. I like… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I like the fact that by mimicking the way memory works, a writer can actually write in a fluid way - one… — 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
Typically in my novels the narrator tells a story by remembering, and the memories are colored by this and colored by that.… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“More fundamentally, I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure,… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“Left alone, I must quickly have drifted off into my own thoughts, for I did not notice the barman return. He must… — 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
