Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

• Perhaps it is indeed time that I began to look at this whole matter of bantering more enthusiastically. After all, when we think about it, it is not such a foolish thing to indulge in—particularly if it is the case that in bantering lies the key to human warmth.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

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• A ‘great’ butler can only be, surely, one who can point to his years of service and say that he has applied his talents to serving a great gentleman—and through the latter, to serving humanity.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

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• An Artist of the Floating World.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

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• An artist’s concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.

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• One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.

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• You need to remember that. If you’re to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

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• I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they’d once belonged to the sea.

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• It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

   

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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?

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• People were incredibly kind to our family and went out of their way to help.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

• 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.

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Kazuo Ishiguro (33)

Birth:	8th November, 1954
Nationality:	British, Japanese
Profession:	Novelist

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