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