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People 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.

Kazuo Ishiguro

People were incredibly kind to our family and went out of their way to help.
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Family Help Kind People Way
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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Myself Song Start Story Writing
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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Goodness Happiness Head Myself Novel Thinking World Writing
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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Adult Childhood Deep Logic Motivational World
I want my words to survive translation.
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Myself Survive Translation Word
All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.
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Children Growth Trauma
As a writer, I’m more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
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Myself People Writing
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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Feeling Life Myself Person
You’re always in a rush, or else you’re too exhausted to have a proper conversation. Soon enough, the long hours, the traveling, the broken sleep have all crept into your being and become part of you, so everyone can see it, in your posture, your gaze, the way you move and talk.
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Break Conversation Move Proper Sleep Talk Travel
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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Friendship Myself Politics Quite Reason Student Talk Thinking
The Booker triumph of Graham Swift’s moving, effortlessly profound Last Orders is a vindication of the quiet, much-misunderstood path this fine writer chose to take after the brilliance of Waterland more than ten years ago.
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Brilliant Effort Move Quiet Understand
I really have to think of the things fiction can do that film can’t and play to the strengths of the novel. With a novel you can get right inside somebody’s head.
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Fiction Head Movie Novel Thinking Yourself
What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.
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Beautiful Calm Wisdom
But then, I suppose, when with the benefit of hindsight one begins to search one’s past for such ‘turning points’, one is apt to start seeing them everywhere.
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Beginning Myself Search See Start
Even at the time, I realised this couldn’t be right, that this interpretation didn’t fit with the rest of the lyrics. But that wasn’t an issue with me. The song was about what I said, and I used to listen to it again and again, on my own, whenever I got the chance.
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Chance Issues Lyrics Myself Right Time
I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they’d once belonged to the sea.
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Book Myself Old Page Sea Thinking

People 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.

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People 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.

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