Don’t you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried?
KAZUO ISHIGURO
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.
More Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes
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Don’t you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried?
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Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.
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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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As a writer, I’m more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
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Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.
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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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If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.
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Its was one of those events which at a crucial stage in one’s development arrive to challenge and stretch one to the limit of one’s ability and beyond, so that thereafter one has a new standard by which to judge oneself.
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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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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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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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All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.
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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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There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.
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An artist’s concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.
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The problem, as I see it, is that you’ve been told and not told. You’ve been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people are quite happy to leave it that way.
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