I can’t even say I made my own mistakes. Really – one has to ask oneself – what dignity is there in that?
KAZUO ISHIGUROEven 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.
More Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes
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She always wanted to believe in things.
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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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I want my words to survive translation.
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I cannot start a story or chapter without knowing how it ends. Of course, it rarely ends that way.
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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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The world is crawling with authors touring now. They’re like performance artists.
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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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To see the best before I have properly begun would be somewhat premature.
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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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What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that’s been given to them, and find some dignity.
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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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There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.
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One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.
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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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I’ve always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.
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