One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.
KAZUO ISHIGUROPeople aren’t quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They’re not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different.
More Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes
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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.
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Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.
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If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.
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To see the best before I have properly begun would be somewhat premature.
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Don’t you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried?
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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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I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends.
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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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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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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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Now naturally, like many of us, I have a reluctance to change too much of the old ways.
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I try to always go for something very interior, following thoughts and memories, something that I think is difficult to do on the screen, which is essentially a third-person medium.
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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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All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.
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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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