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Writer Quotes by Kazuo Ishiguro
- I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are…
- I still have a suspicion of charity and think the state has a role to play in many areas. And although for most of the…
- There's a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer's head, to continually analyze why…
- I like the fact that by mimicking the way memory works, a writer can actually write in a fluid way - one solid scene doesn't…
- As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
- I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of…
- Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write…
- What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a lot of writers…
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