The problem, as I see it, is that you’ve been told and not told. You’ve been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people are quite happy to leave it that way.
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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I can’t even say I made my own mistakes. Really – one has to ask oneself – what dignity is there in that?
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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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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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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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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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You have to accept that sometimes that’s how things happen in this world. People’s opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.
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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.
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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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As with a wound on one’s own body, it is possible to develop an intimacy with the most disturbing of things.
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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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The world is crawling with authors touring now. They’re like performance artists.
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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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Don’t you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried?
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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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