I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to write something strange and difficult, that was the time.
All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma. - Kazuo Ishiguro
All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.
- Kazuo Ishiguro
All I know is that I've wasted all these years looking for something, a sort of trophy I'd get only if I really, really did enough to deserve it. But… - Kazuo Ishiguro
All I know is that I've wasted all these years looking for something, a sort of trophy I'd get only if I really, really did enough to deserve it. But…
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. - Kazuo Ishiguro
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.
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. - Kazuo Ishiguro
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.
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-decepti… - Kazuo Ishiguro
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-decepti…
As I say, I have never in all these years thought of the matter in quite this way; but then it is perhaps in the nature of coming away on a trip such… - Kazuo Ishiguro
As I say, I have never in all these years thought of the matter in quite this way; but then it is perhaps in the nature of coming away on a trip such…
Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers. - Kazuo Ishiguro
Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.
Don’t you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried? - Kazuo Ishiguro
Don’t you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried?
I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me. - Kazuo Ishiguro
I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.
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