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 ISHIGUROAll children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.
More Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes
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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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One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.
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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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It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed.
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She always wanted to believe in things.
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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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An artist’s concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.
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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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Now naturally, like many of us, I have a reluctance to change too much of the old ways.
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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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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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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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I cannot start a story or chapter without knowing how it ends. Of course, it rarely ends that way.
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I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff.
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