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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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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There’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.

KAZUO ISHIGURO

There’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.
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Typically in my novels the narrator tells a story by remembering, and the memories are colored by this and colored by that. So the whole universe of the novel tends to be framed by the narrator’s memories and thoughts.

KAZUO ISHIGURO

Typically in my novels the narrator tells a story by remembering, and the memories are colored by this and colored by that. So the whole universe of the novel tends to be framed by the narrator’s memories and thoughts.
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But then, I suppose, when with the benefit of hindsight one begins to search one’s past for such ‘turning points’, one is apt to start seeing them everywhere.

KAZUO ISHIGURO

But then, I suppose, when with the benefit of hindsight one begins to search one’s past for such ‘turning points’, one is apt to start seeing them everywhere.
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I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.

KAZUO ISHIGURO

I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.
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Alive Discover Imagination World
My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation.

KAZUO ISHIGURO

My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation.
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Don’t you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried?

KAZUO ISHIGURO

Don’t you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried?
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All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.

KAZUO ISHIGURO

All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.
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Children Growth Trauma
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.

KAZUO ISHIGURO

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.
KAZUO ISHIGURO

Fade Memories Quick See Surprise
Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking.

KAZUO ISHIGURO

Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking.
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Break Heart Moments
I’ve always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.

KAZUO ISHIGURO

I’ve always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.
KAZUO ISHIGURO

Fiction Greatness
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.

KAZUO ISHIGURO

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.
KAZUO ISHIGURO

Acceptance Dignity People
I want my words to survive translation.

KAZUO ISHIGURO

I want my words to survive translation.
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There was surely nothing to indicate at the time that such evidently small incidents would render whole dreams forever irredeemable.

KAZUO ISHIGURO

There was surely nothing to indicate at the time that such evidently small incidents would render whole dreams forever irredeemable.
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Dreams Forever Time
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.

KAZUO ISHIGURO

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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And if these incidents now seem full of significance and all of a piece, it’s probably because I’m looking at them in the light of what came later.

KAZUO ISHIGURO

And if these incidents now seem full of significance and all of a piece, it’s probably because I’m looking at them in the light of what came later.
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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.

KAZUO ISHIGURO

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.
KAZUO ISHIGURO

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