Democracy Quote by Kazuo Ishiguro

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

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“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

“Silence is just as likely to indicate the most profound ideas forming, the deepest energies being summoned.”

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

“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