The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me. — 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 don't think it's any fun, even if you are one of the most respected authors in the world like Margaret Atwood,… — 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'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
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
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
Because maybe, in a way, we didn't leave it behind nearly as much as we might once have thought. Because somewhere underneath,… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
There's still a part of me that thinks I have to write a really good novel. I'm not trying to say I'm… — 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
All you decent, well-meaning gentlemen, let me ask you, have you any idea what sort of place the world is becoming all… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
…It’s hard to appreciate the beauty of a world when one doubts its very validity….But I’ve long since lost all such doubts,… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
There's something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“I suppose it had something to do with it being a secret, just how much it had meant to me. Maybe all… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I think the judging process is full of integrity, compared to some other prizes around the world. The fact that they change… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I was very young when I prepared those prints. I suspect the reason I couldn't celebrate the floating world was that I… — 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
I saw a new world coming rapidly. More scientific, efficient, yes. More cures for the old sicknesses. Very good. But a harsh,… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Perhaps there are those who are able to go about their lives unfettered by such concerns. But for those like us, our… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
The English landscape at its finest - such as I saw this morning - possesses a quality that the landscapes of other… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in 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
