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 children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.

- Kazuo Ishiguro

I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.

- 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.

- 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.

- Kazuo Ishiguro

Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.

- 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…

- Kazuo Ishiguro

Don’t you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried?

- 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…

- Kazuo Ishiguro