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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

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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Difference Reputation Thinking Winner Writing
I like novelists who can create other interesting worlds.
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Creation Interest Myself Novel World
Now naturally, like many of us, I have a reluctance to change too much of the old ways.
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Change Myself Natural Old Way
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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Friendship Generation Hero Myself Writing
There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.
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Dreams Life Myself Spiritual
One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.
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Accident Oneself Quite Truth
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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Company Feeling Growth Myself Road Solitude
What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.
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Beautiful Calm Feeling Greatness Land
I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to write something strange and difficult, that was the time.
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Difficult People Story Strange Thinking Time Writing
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
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 have the feeling of this completely alternative person I should have become. There was another life that I might have had, but I’m having this one.
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Feeling Life Myself Person
People were incredibly kind to our family and went out of their way to help.
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Family Help Kind People Way
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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Book Count Death Writing Yourself
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
All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.
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Children Growth Trauma

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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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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