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 ISHIGUROTypically 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.
More Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes
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When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.
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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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I started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I’ve always seen my stories as enlarged songs.
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To see the best before I have properly begun would be somewhat premature.
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I like the fact that by mimicking the way memory works, a writer can actually write in a fluid way – one solid scene doesn’t have to fall on another solid scene, you can just have a fragment that then dovetails into another one that took place 30 years apart from it.
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An artist’s concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.
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One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.
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Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.
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I grew up in Britain before it became a multicultural place, so in many ways I have a nostalgia for an England that’s vanished – the England of my childhood has actually disappeared.
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As a writer, I’m more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
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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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And I’m a Hailsham student – which is enough by itself sometimes to get people’s backs up.
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I want my words to survive translation.
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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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There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the world and make sense of their lives? To what extent can they transcend their fate? As time starts to run out, what are the things that really matter?
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