As a writer, I’m more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
KAZUO ISHIGUROI 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.
More Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes
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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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All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.
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What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.
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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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Because maybe, in a way, we didn’t leave it behind nearly as much as we might once have thought. Because somewhere underneath, a part of us stayed like that: fearful of the world around us, and no matter how much we despised ourselves for it–unable quite to let each other go.
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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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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.
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You say you’re sure? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple?
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There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.
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I want my words to survive translation.
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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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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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Don’t you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried?
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There is certainly a satisfaction and dignity to be gained in coming to terms with the mistakes one has made in the course of one’s life.
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I like novelists who can create other interesting worlds.
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