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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“We were just trying to create a place for ourselves in a world that didn’t want us.” — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
When we lost something precious, and we'd looked and looked and still couldn't find it, then we didn't have to be completely… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“You see, because [Norfolk is] stuck out here on the east, on this hump jutting into the sea, it's not on the… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“When we lost something precious, and we'd looked and looked and still couldn't find it, then we didn't have to be completely… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“Might as well tell you. In that shop we were in, they had this shelf with loads of records and tapes. So… — 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 Image
As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“Silence is just as likely to indicate the most profound ideas forming, the deepest energies being summoned.” — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 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, to keep… — 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 starving people. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“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 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
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 Image
![“You see, because [Norfolk is] stuck out here on the east, on this hump jutting into the sea, it's not on the way to anywhere. People going north and south, they bypass it altogether. For that reason, it's a peaceful corner of England, rather nice. But it's also something of a lost corner.' Someone…” quote by Kazuo Ishiguro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3b5/kazuo-ishiguro-1029_comfort_you-see-because-norfolk-is-stuck-out-her_1803592.jpg)
