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I felt I had almost written myself into a corner. 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 the movie, had by then also created a commercial expectation and I remember touring America and seeing people in the audiences who I thought might not want to read the books I wanted to write next. My constituency had become broader, but more mysterious to me. - Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

I felt I had almost written myself into a corner. 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 the movie, had by then also created a commercial expectation and I remember touring America and seeing people in the audiences who I thought might not want to read the books I wanted to write next. My constituency had become broader, but more mysterious to me.

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 the books I had to write. - Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

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 the books I had to write.

Books And Reading Japanese Author

I used to think when I was in my teens I was very different from my father, but now I see that what we do is probably quite similar. - Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

I used to think when I was in my teens I was very different from my father, but now I see that what we do is probably quite similar.

Father Japanese Author

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 years since I have been a rather privileged writer, I identify more closely than perhaps I should with those social workers. Had I not become a writer that would have been me. - Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

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 years since I have been a rather privileged writer, I identify more closely than perhaps I should with those social workers. Had I not become a writer that would have been me.

It is only when you have discovered the other person's status that you know how to address and treat them. - Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

It is only when you have discovered the other person's status that you know how to address and treat them.

Until then, I was knocking on doors. Afterward, my wife and I started to get a different kind of dinner invitation altogether. - Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

Until then, I was knocking on doors. Afterward, my wife and I started to get a different kind of dinner invitation altogether.

When you are young, things like your moral stance and your political position seem very important. I'd spend long nights with my friends sorting out moral and political positions that we thought would take us through adult life. And part of that would end up meaning we despised some people not for what they did, but for the opinions they professed to hold. - Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

When you are young, things like your moral stance and your political position seem very important. I'd spend long nights with my friends sorting out moral and political positions that we thought would take us through adult life. And part of that would end up meaning we despised some people not for what they did, but for the opinions they professed to hold.

I went many years without even associating Nagasaki with the atomic bomb. Then in the 1980s, when there was a new concern about CND and so on, Nagasaki took on this symbolic value. I felt my Nagasaki had been appropriated. It was suddenly this burning city of ashes. For me, it was where I lived until the age of 5. - Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

I went many years without even associating Nagasaki with the atomic bomb. Then in the 1980s, when there was a new concern about CND and so on, Nagasaki took on this symbolic value. I felt my Nagasaki had been appropriated. It was suddenly this burning city of ashes. For me, it was where I lived until the age of 5.

There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the world and make sense of their lives? To what extent can they transcend their fate? As time starts to run out, what are the things that really matter? - Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the world and make sense of their lives? To what extent can they transcend their fate? As time starts to run out, what are the things that really matter?

Japanese Author Trying

When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it. - Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.

Japanese Author

All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma. - Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.

Children Japanese Author

Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory,. - Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory,.

It is a protected world. To some extent at least you have to shield children from what you know and drip-feed information to them. Sometimes that is kindly meant, and sometimes not. - Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

It is a protected world. To some extent at least you have to shield children from what you know and drip-feed information to them. Sometimes that is kindly meant, and sometimes not.

Nagasaki is not just a few hazy images. I remember it as a real chunk of my life. - Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

Nagasaki is not just a few hazy images. I remember it as a real chunk of my life.

Life

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 they write, where it all comes from, where it's going to. - Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

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 they write, where it all comes from, where it's going to.

Japanese Author

People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different. - Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different.

Japanese Author People

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one. - Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

Japanese Author Life

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 being nominated and not win. - Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

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 being nominated and not win.

Japanese Author

When I got to 40 or so... I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on, and many that I had no control over whatsoever. - Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

When I got to 40 or so... I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on, and many that I had no control over whatsoever.

Japanese Author Life

I couldn't speak Japanese very well, passport regulations were changing, I felt British, and my future was in Britain. And it would also make me eligible for literary awards. But I still think I'm regarded as one of their own in Japan. - Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

I couldn't speak Japanese very well, passport regulations were changing, I felt British, and my future was in Britain. And it would also make me eligible for literary awards. But I still think I'm regarded as one of their own in Japan.

Future Japanese Author

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

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

Japanese Author People

While it is important to have principles, you have far less control of what happens. These principles and positions only get you so far, because what actually happens is that you don't carefully chart your way through life. You are picked up by a wind every now and again and dumped down somewhere else. - Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

While it is important to have principles, you have far less control of what happens. These principles and positions only get you so far, because what actually happens is that you don't carefully chart your way through life. You are picked up by a wind every now and again and dumped down somewhere else.

The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists. - Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists.

Japanese Author

I think the judging process is full of integrity, compared to some other prizes around the world. The fact that they change the panel of judges every year keeps it from becoming corrupt. I think it's very difficult if you've got judges for life; obviously relationships are cultivated between judges and authors, and publishing houses. - Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

I think the judging process is full of integrity, compared to some other prizes around the world. The fact that they change the panel of judges every year keeps it from becoming corrupt. I think it's very difficult if you've got judges for life; obviously relationships are cultivated between judges and authors, and publishing houses.

Unless you have a real sense of precious things under threat, there would be nothing sad about time being limited. - Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

Unless you have a real sense of precious things under threat, there would be nothing sad about time being limited.

I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends. - Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends.

Japanese Author

The book was at a reasonably high position on the New York Times... before I was in the country. I thought it would be an interesting experiment to see if my presence here would push it up or down. - Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

The book was at a reasonably high position on the New York Times... before I was in the country. I thought it would be an interesting experiment to see if my presence here would push it up or down.

Japanese Author

The idea of a successful novel was something that was reviewed in the Observer and then sank without trace. Literature wasn't a happening thing in those days. Music and fringe theatre and television playwriting were far more exciting. - Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

The idea of a successful novel was something that was reviewed in the Observer and then sank without trace. Literature wasn't a happening thing in those days. Music and fringe theatre and television playwriting were far more exciting.

I work very regular hours, roughly 9 to 5:30. I think I have it much easier than a lot of parents. I just sit at home. - Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

I work very regular hours, roughly 9 to 5:30. I think I have it much easier than a lot of parents. I just sit at home.

Work

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 are having to face. Writers have become much more public now. - Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

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 are having to face. Writers have become much more public now.

Japanese Author

I had been plunged into a different world. I found myself spending half my time answering weird questions on book tours in the Midwest. People would stand up and explain to me the situation in their office and ask me whether they should resign or not. - Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

I had been plunged into a different world. I found myself spending half my time answering weird questions on book tours in the Midwest. People would stand up and explain to me the situation in their office and ask me whether they should resign or not.

Japanese Author

Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time, it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki. - Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time, it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki.

Japanese Author

I often play little games in my head. - Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

I often play little games in my head.

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 write something strange and difficult, that was the time. - Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

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 write something strange and difficult, that was the time.

Japanese Author

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 intensely interrogated by journalists in Denmark or wherever. That fact, I believe, informs the way I write-with those Danish journalists leaning over my shoulder. - Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

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 intensely interrogated by journalists in Denmark or wherever. That fact, I believe, informs the way I write-with those Danish journalists leaning over my shoulder.

By mimicking the way memory works, a writer can actually write in a fluid way-one solid scene doesn't have to fall on another solid scene, you can just have a fragment that then dovetails into another one that took place 30 years apart from it. It doesn't have to be fully realized, it can be a glancing, shadowy reference to something that you'll come back to later, and then it moves on. - Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

By mimicking the way memory works, a writer can actually write in a fluid way-one solid scene doesn't have to fall on another solid scene, you can just have a fragment that then dovetails into another one that took place 30 years apart from it. It doesn't have to be fully realized, it can be a glancing, shadowy reference to something that you'll come back to later, and then it moves on.

I do feel part of that generation of people who were rather idealistic in the '70s and became disillusioned in the '80s. Not just about social services issues, but the world. - Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

I do feel part of that generation of people who were rather idealistic in the '70s and became disillusioned in the '80s. Not just about social services issues, but the world.

Japanese Author People

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 autobiographical or experimental stuff. - Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

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 autobiographical or experimental stuff.

Japanese Author

If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them. - Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them.

Japanese Author

I went through my purple-prose phase in my songwriting... I was really writing between the lines. And that was what I took into my fiction. That was my apprenticeship, really. - Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

I went through my purple-prose phase in my songwriting... I was really writing between the lines. And that was what I took into my fiction. That was my apprenticeship, really.

Never Let Me Go, - Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

Never Let Me Go,

My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation. - Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation.

Japanese Author

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