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All Quotes by author - Kazuo Ishiguro
" All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma. "
Without
Grow
Grow Up
" As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened. "
People
Writer
More
" Even though I spent the first five years of my life in Nagasaki, going to Japan can be really difficult. Even if they know I've been brought up in the West, they still expect me to understand all the subtleties of their culture, and if I get it wrong, it matters much more than if a British person gets it wrong. I find it intimidating. "
Life
My Life
Know
" 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. "
Speak
Own
Me
" I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me. "
Imagination
World
Me
" I do feel part of that generation of people who were rather idealistic in the '70s and became disillusioned in the '80s. Not just about social services issues, but the world. "
Feel
World
Generation
" I don't hang out with the glitteringly successful people; I hang out with people who've been friends for many years, and to some extent I feel my worldly success is a bit uncomfortable for them. "
Successful
People
Friends
" I don't have a deep link with England like, say, Jonathan Coe or Hanif Kureishi might demonstrate. For me, it is like a mythical place. "
Like
Me
Place
" 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. "
Reason
Politics
Myself
" If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them. "
You
Connection
Last
" 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. "
Myself
People
Book
" I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on and many that I had no control over whatsoever. "
Control
Back
My Life
" I like novelists who can create other interesting worlds. "
Interesting
Who
Other
" I like the fact that by mimicking the way memory works, a writer can actually write in a fluid way - one solid scene doesn't have to fall on another solid scene, you can just have a fragment that then dovetails into another one that took place 30 years apart from it. "
Fall
You
Like
" 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. "
Loved
Cowboy
Famous
" I'm always trying to make something that is impossible to film. Why would somebody just read a novel when they can see it on TV or in the cinema? 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. "
Impossible
You
Trying
" 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. "
Memory
People
See
" I'm not at all interested in the brave who fight against the odds and win. I am interested in those who accept their lot, as that is what many people in the world are doing. They do their best in ghastly conditions. "
Best
World
People
" I'm very fortunate in that I don't have money problems. I have lunch with my wife at home. I don't have to commute, so I have much more time with my family. "
Wife
Time
Money
" I spent ages figuring out things like viewpoint, how you tell the story, and so on. "
You
Like
Out
" I started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I've always seen my stories as enlarged songs. "
Like
Stories
Started
" I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff. "
Think
Through
Writer
" I think jogging is bad for your health. All that pressure on the knees and back cannot be good for you. "
Pressure
Health
Good
" I try to always go for something... very interior, following thoughts and memories, something that I think is difficult to do on the screen, which is essentially a third-person medium. "
Always
Think
Try
" I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers. "
English
Always
Had
" I want my words to survive translation. "
Survive
Want
Words
" I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend three days being intensely interrogated by journalists in Denmark or wherever. That fact, I believe, informs the way I write - with those Danish journalists leaning over my shoulder. "
Believe
Words
Want
" 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. "
Time
Thought
Strange
" I work very regular hours, roughly 9 to 5:30. I think I have it much easier than a lot of parents. I just sit at home, I have a very flexible timetable, and I'm very fortunate in that I don't have money problems. I have lunch with my wife at home. I don't have to commute, so I have much more time with my family. "
Family
Work
Wife
" I wouldn't want to try to adapt something of my own. It would be like going back to school and doing all my exams again. "
My Own
Doing
Try
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