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

Kazuo Ishiguro

There comes a point when you can more or less count the number of books you’re going to write before you die.
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Book Count Death Writing Yourself
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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Book Different People Quite Stand Value Winner
Because maybe, in a way, we didn’t leave it behind nearly as much as we might once have thought. Because somewhere underneath, a part of us stayed like that: fearful of the world around us, and no matter how much we despised ourselves for it–unable quite to let each other go.
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Fear Leaving Ourselves Philosophy Quite Stay
As a writer, I’m more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
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Myself People Writing
Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.
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Fade Memories Myself Quick See Surprise
I like the fact that 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.
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Fact Fragment Memories Place Time Work Writing
There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.
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Dreams Life Myself Spiritual
People were incredibly kind to our family and went out of their way to help.
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Family Help Kind People Way
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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Conflict End Fight Greatness Health Organization
It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you’ve made, and there’s this panic because you don’t know yet the scale of disaster you’ve left yourself open to.
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Disaster Fingers Mistake Move Yourself
I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they’d once belonged to the sea.
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Book Myself Old Page Sea Thinking
Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking.
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Break Heart Moments Myself
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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Best Day Enjoyment Work Yourself
I try to always go for something very interior, following thoughts and memories, something that I think is difficult to do on the screen, which is essentially a third-person medium.
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Essential Interior Memories Myself Person
I think there is a huge difference between writers who have very big sales, and writers who have small sales. Even writers with very high reputations, even Nobel prize winners, often sell in very low figures.
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Difference Reputation Thinking Winner Writing
It is one of the enjoyments of retirement that you are able to drift through the day at your own pace, easy in the knowledge that you have put hard work and achievement behind you.
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Achievement Day Easy Enjoyment Hard Work Knowledge Yourself

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

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