Kazuo Ishiguro

Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“What's going on here, Tommy? Has Keffers recruited you for his porn patrol?”

— Kazuo Ishiguro

My donors have always tended to do much better than expected.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

To see the best before I have properly begun would be somewhat premature.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I want my words to survive translation.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

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…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“For some reason, we called it "umbrella sex"; if you fancied someone your own sex, you were "an umbrella.”

— Kazuo Ishiguro

When I see films made from books, I make a huge effort not to remember the book. It's important to see the…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

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

“it is the very lack of obvious drama or spectacle that sets the beauty of our land apart.”

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time.”

— Kazuo Ishiguro

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

She might be a great person, but life's so much bigger than just loving someone.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“What occurs under the public gaze with so much pomp and ceremony is often the conclusion, or mere ratification, of what has…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“For we were, as I say, an idealistic generation for whom the question was not simply one of how well one practised…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

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

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

But I really wanted to find it for you. And when it looked in the end like it wasn't going to turn…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I don't really like to work with literary allusions very much. I never want to be in a position where I'm saying,…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I find Japanese books quite baffling when I read them in translation. It's only with Haruki Murakami that I find Japanse fiction…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“Maybe Ruth thought we'd be spending hours talking about my future; maybe she thought she'd have a big influence on whether or…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“I was thinking about the rubbish, the flapping plastic in the branches, the shore-line of odd stuff caught along the fencing, and…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I quizzed him a lot on this point and i suspect the truth was that it was like a lot of things…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

What he wanted was not just to hear about Hailsham, but to remember Hailsham, just like it had been his own childhood.…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

…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

“Why should they be grateful? They came here looking for something much more. What we gave them, all the years, all the…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“Those who sent the likes of Kenji out there to die these brave deaths, where are they today? They're carrying on with…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“As I’ve said, it wasn’t until a long time afterwards—long after I’d left the Cottages—that I realized just how significant out little…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“You see, we were able to give you something, something which even now no one will ever take from you, and we…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“The woods played on our imaginations the most after dark, in our dorms as we were trying to fall asleep. You almost…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“Maybe from as early as when you're five or six, there's been a whisper going at the back of your head, saying:…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“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

“What can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“That's most interesting. But I was no more a mind-reader then than today. I was weeping for an altogether different reason. When…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“The point is, there was a gap in Miss Emily's calendar collection: none of them had a single picture of Norfolk. I'd…

— Kazuo Ishiguro