“We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time.” — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time, it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
There was surely nothing to indicate at the time that such evidently small incidents would render whole dreams forever irredeemable. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“You spend so much time with someone, you find you get used to him.” — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“It is essential, then, to keep one's attention focused on the present; to guard against any complacency creeping in on account of… — 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… — 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
I'm very fortunate in that I don't have money problems. I have lunch with my wife at home. I don't have to… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Even at the time, I realised this couldn't be right, that this interpretation didn't fit with the rest of the lyrics. But… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“What I mean is, right from that first time, there was something in Tommy's manner that was tinged with sadness, that seemed… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We… — 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
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
“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 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
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
“...we have the satisfaction of knowing that whatever we did, we did at the time in the best of faith. Of course,… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“Looking back now, it's funny to think we got so worked up, because usually the Sales were a big disappointment…But the point… — 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
And what made these heart-to-hearts possible--you might even say what made the whole friendship possible during that time--was this understanding we had… — 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… — 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… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
And so we stood together like that, at the top of that field for what seemed like ages, not saying anything, just… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“Dinner will be served at the usual time and I am pleased to say there will be no discernible traces left of… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“You will agree that such is often the way with matters one has given abiding thought to over a period of time;… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“I have this feeling, that all it will take will be one moment, even a tiny moment, provided it’s the correct one.… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“Yes, I do love my husband. I didn't at first. I didn't at first for a long time. When I left Darlington… — 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… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
It is all very well, in these changing times, to adapt one's work to take in duties not traditionally within one's realm;… — 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
“In any case, while it is all very well to talk of 'turning points', one can surely only recognise such moments in… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 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
