Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.
KAZUO ISHIGUROThere’s still a part of me that thinks I have to write a really good novel. I’m not trying to say I’m not happy with the novels I’ve written in the past. But it always feels to me like there’s another one that I have to write that will really say what I want to say, and really paint this world that I can see hazily in my head.
More Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes
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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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We all live inside bodies that will deteriorate. But when you look at human beings, they’re capable of very decent things: love, loyalty. When time is running out, they don’t care about possessions or status. They want to put things right if they’ve done wrong.
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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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I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.
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What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.
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I can’t even say I made my own mistakes. Really – one has to ask oneself – what dignity is there in that?
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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 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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What I’m not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we’ve lived through, or feel we’ve had enough time.
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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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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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Now naturally, like many of us, I have a reluctance to change too much of the old ways.
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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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Even the solitude, I’ve actually grown to quite like. I do like the feeling of getting into my little car, knowing for the next couple of hours I’ll have only the roads, the big gray sky and my daydreams for company.
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She always wanted to believe in things.
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