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I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.

Kazuo Ishiguro

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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Childhood Disappear Growth Nostalgia Place Way
I cannot start a story or chapter without knowing how it ends. Of course, it rarely ends that way.
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End Myself Rare Start Way
Love isn’t about when you first meet. It’s about the many, many years you spend together, when you’re trying to keep that flame burning.
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Burn Flame Love Relationship Togetherness Yourself
An artist’s concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.
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Artist Beautiful Himself
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
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.
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Friendship Myself Politics Quite Reason Student Talk Thinking
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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Blame Forever Live Ourselves Quite
I think it’s quite difficult to understand what kind of life a writer leads. They might be millionaires, or they might be starving people.
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Difficult Life Myself People Quite Starve Thinking
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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Company Expectation Myself Time
Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking.
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Break Heart Moments Myself
I’ve always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.
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Fiction Greatness Interest Myself
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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Experience Fiction Service Stuff Thinking Writing
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.
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Author Fun Myself Nomination Respect Thinking
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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Love Simplicity Yourself
All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.
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Children Growth Trauma
One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.
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Accident Oneself Quite Truth

I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.

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