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 ISHIGUROI think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they’d once belonged to the sea.
More Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes
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After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?
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Don’t you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried?
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As a writer, I’m more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
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Perhaps one day, all these conflicts will end, and it won’t be because of great statesmen or churches or organisations like this one. It’ll be because people have changed. They’ll be like you, Puffin. More a mixture. So why not become a mongrel? It’s healthy.
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People were incredibly kind to our family and went out of their way to help.
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She always wanted to believe in things.
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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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What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.
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What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.
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And I’m a Hailsham student – which is enough by itself sometimes to get people’s backs up.
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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.
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The world is crawling with authors touring now. They’re like performance artists.
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You say you’re sure? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple?
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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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I’ve always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.
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