And I’m a Hailsham student – which is enough by itself sometimes to get people’s backs up.
KAZUO ISHIGUROI 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.
More Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes
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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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There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.
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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.
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Now naturally, like many of us, I have a reluctance to change too much of the old ways.
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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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Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it’s a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.
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You have to accept that sometimes that’s how things happen in this world. People’s opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.
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The world is crawling with authors touring now. They’re like performance artists.
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Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking.
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I grew up in Britain before it became a multicultural place, so in many ways I have a nostalgia for an England that’s vanished – the England of my childhood has actually disappeared.
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One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.
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Typically in my novels the narrator tells a story by remembering, and the memories are colored by this and colored by that. So the whole universe of the novel tends to be framed by the narrator’s memories and thoughts.
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As with a wound on one’s own body, it is possible to develop an intimacy with the most disturbing of things.
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I’ve always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.
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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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