Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro OBE, FRSA, FRSLis a British novelist, screenwriter and short story writer. He was born in Nagasaki, Japan; his family moved to England in 1960 when he was five. Ishiguro obtained his bachelor's degree from the University of Kent in 1978 and his Master's from the University of East Anglia's creative-writing course in 1980...
NationalityJapanese
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth8 November 1954
CountryJapan
body intimacy disturbing
As with a wound on one's own body, it is possible to develop an intimacy with the most disturbing of things
people literature self-deception
As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
memories opportunity self
I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are there. In the end, as a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
people feelings world
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.
girl eye heart
I saw a new world coming rapidly. More scientific, efficient, yes. More cures for the old sicknesses. Very good. But a harsh, cruel, world. And I saw a little girl, her eyes tightly closed, holding to her breast the old kind world, one that she knew in her heart could not remain, and she was holding it and pleading, never to let her go.
greatness land needs
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.
forever might gains
After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?
believe unique men
…It’s hard to appreciate the beauty of a world when one doubts its very validity….But I’ve long since lost all such doubts, Ono,’ he continued. ‘When I am an old man, when I look back over my life and see I have devoted it to the task of capturing the unique beauty of that world, I believe I will be well satisfied. And no man will make me believe I’ve wasted my time.
love-is years flames
Love isn't about when you first meet. It's about the many, many years you spend together, when you're trying to keep that flame burning.
memories remember realizing
Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.
inspirational might another-life
There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.
memories fading never-let-me-go
Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.
believe never-let-me-go wanted
She always wanted to believe in things.
far fringe happening literature music novel observer reviewed successful television theatre
The idea of a successful novel was something that was reviewed in the Observer and then sank without trace. Literature wasn't a happening thing in those days. Music and fringe theatre and television playwriting were far more exciting.