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Writing Quotes by Kazuo Ishiguro
- You could say I'd rewritten the same novel three times and I thought I had to move on. The success of the book, and then…
- I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to…
- 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…
- Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.
- There comes a point when you can more or less count the number of books you're going to write before you die.
- 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…
- I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend three days being…
- 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…
- Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory. I like the atmospheres that…
More Writing Quotes
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- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
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- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
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- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
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