People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
The Booker triumph of Graham Swift's moving, effortlessly profound Last Orders is a vindication of the quiet, much-misunderstood path this fine writer… — 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
If you were a boy and a girl and you were in love with each other, really, properly in love, and if… — 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
He chose a certain path in life, it proved to be a misguided one, but there, he chose it, he can say… — 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 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
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
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 don't hang out with the glitteringly successful people; I hang out with people who've been friends for many years, and to… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
There's something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom… — 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
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
Even though I spent the first five years of my life in Nagasaki, going to Japan can be really difficult. Even if… — 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
