What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
There's a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer's head, to… — 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
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
Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
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 Image
There's something very misleading about the literary culture that looks at writers in their 30s and calls them 'budding' or 'promising', when… — 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
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
The Booker triumph of Graham Swift's moving, effortlessly profound Last Orders is a vindication of the quiet, much-misunderstood path this fine writer… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend… — 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
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
When I write a novel, I want it to be completely different from a screenplay. I'm very conscious of the difference, and… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I think there is a huge difference between writers who have very big sales, and writers who have small sales. Even writers… — 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 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
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
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
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
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
