Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of… — 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 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 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 do not think I responded immediately, for it took me a moment or two to fully digest these words of Miss… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I couldn't speak Japanese very well, passport regulations were changing, I felt British and my future was in Britain. And it would… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is indeed time I began to look at this whole matter of bantering more enthusiastically. After all, when one thinks… — 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 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 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
There was a time you saw me once, one afternoon, in the dormitories. There was no one else around, and I was… — 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
If you go to Tokyo, I think it becomes very obvious that there's this almost seamless mixture of popular culture and Japanese… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
All I know is that I've wasted all these years looking for something, a sort of trophy I'd get only if I… — 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
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
You say you’re sure? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple? — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I quizzed him a lot on this point and i suspect the truth was that it was like a lot of things… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I really have to think of the things fiction can do that film can't and play to the strengths of the novel.… — 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 try to always go for something... very interior, following thoughts and memories, something that I think is difficult to do on… — 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
I work very regular hours, roughly 9 to 5:30. I think I have it much easier than a lot of parents. I… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they'd once belonged to the sea. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I think jogging is bad for your health. All that pressure on the knees and back cannot be good for you. — 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
