I cannot start a story or chapter without knowing how it ends. ... Of course, it rarely ends that way. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
People were incredibly kind to our family and went out of their way to help. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Now naturally, like many of us, I have a reluctance to change too much of the old ways. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
The problem, as I see it, is that you've been told and not told. You've been told, but none of you really… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
As I say, I have never in all these years thought of the matter in quite this way; but then it is… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I like the fact that by mimicking the way memory works, a writer can actually write in a fluid way - one… — 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,… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I grew up in Britain before it became a multicultural place, so in many ways I have a nostalgia for an England… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“You have to accept that sometimes that's how things happen in this world. People's opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Because maybe, in a way, we didn't leave it behind nearly as much as we might once have thought. Because somewhere underneath,… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend… — 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
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
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
