“We were just trying to create a place for ourselves in a world that didn’t want us.” — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I wouldn't want to try to adapt something of my own. It would be like going back to school and doing all… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I'm always trying to make something that is impossible to film. Why would somebody just read a novel when they can see… — 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
The reason I wouldn't dare to write a Western is simply because that seems to be so much a part of American… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Perhaps there are those who are able to go about their lives unfettered by such concerns. But for those like us, our… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
What is the point of worrying oneself too much about what one could or could not have done to control the course… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
For a great many people, the evening is the most enjoyable part of the day. Perhaps, then, there is something to his… — 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
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
As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share
“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
“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
“Silence is just as likely to indicate the most profound ideas forming, the deepest energies being summoned.” — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
