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
childhood world adults
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.
cowboy japan watches
I loved cowboy films and TV series, and I learned bits of English from them. My favorite was 'Laramie', with Robert Fuller and John Smith. I used to watch 'The Lone Ranger', which had been famous in Japan as well. I idolized these cowboys.
book hiking office
I had been plunged into a different world. I found myself spending half my time answering weird questions on book tours in the Midwest. People would stand up and explain to me the situation in their office and ask me whether they should resign or not.
book effort important
When I see films made from books, I make a huge effort not to remember the book. It's important to see the film as a film.
fate people dignity
What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity.
artist literature world
The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists.
people literature way
People were incredibly kind to our family and went out of their way to help.
literature looks exotic
Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time, it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki.
memories writing texture
Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.
imagination world alive
I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.
ambition men trying
A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he fails and loses a fortune on account of his ambitions (...) if one has failed only where others have not had the courage or will to try, there is consolation - indeed, deep satisfaction - to be gained from his observation when looking back over one's life. #Page no.134
doubt height impression
If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.
sex parallel-universe parallels
It was like there was some parallel universe we all vanished off to where we had all this sex.
thinking awards japan
I couldn't speak Japanese very well, passport regulations were changing, I felt British and my future was in Britain. And it would also make me eligible for literary awards. But I still think I'm regarded as one of their own in Japan.