People were incredibly kind to our family and went out of their way to help. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
And I'm a Hailsham student - which is enough by itself sometimes to get people's backs up. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I think it's quite difficult to understand what kind of life a writer leads. They might be millionaires, or they might be… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find… — 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
People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I had been plunged into a different world. I found myself spending half my time answering weird questions on book tours in… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Throughout my career I've struggled to encourage people to read my books on a more metaphorical level. I'm less attached to my… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“You have to accept that sometimes that's how things happen in this world. People's opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I do feel part of that generation of people who were rather idealistic in the '70s and became disillusioned in the '80s.… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I don't hang out with the glitteringly successful people; I hang out with people who've been friends for many years, and to… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Perhaps one day, all these conflicts will end, and it won't be because of great statesmen or churches or organisations like this… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
You could say I'd rewritten the same novel three times and I thought I had to move on. The success of the… — 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
For a great many people, the evening is the most enjoyable part of the day. Perhaps, then, there is something to his… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
The reason I wouldn't dare to write a Western is simply because that seems to be so much a part of American… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I can see,’ Miss Emily said, ‘that it might look as though you were simply pawns in a game. It can certainly… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I actually dislike, more than many people, working through literary allusion. I just feel that there's something a bit snobbish or elitist… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I still have a suspicion of charity and think the state has a role to play in many areas. And although for… — 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'm not at all interested in the brave who fight against the odds and win. I am interested in those who accept… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Everything might scatter. You might be right. I suppose it's something we can't easily get away from. People need to feel they… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard… — 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
The problem, as I see it, is that you've been told and not told. You've been told, but none of you really… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I realised, of course, that other people used these roads; but that night, it seemed to me these dark byways of the… — 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
