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Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

Japanese - Author | November 8, 1954 -

Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.

Memory Me Writing Through Texture

People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different.

People Book Winner Year Values Sure

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 Home Time Money Wife Lunch

What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a lot of writers are having to face. Writers have become much more public now.

Life Writing Face Think Promotion

The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists.

World Performance Now Artists Like

There's a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer's head, to continually analyze why they write, where it all comes from, where it's going to.

Time Energy Problem Why More Write

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

Life I Am Might Having Am Another

When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.

Teacher Child Parent Innocence You

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

Children Grow Grow Up Trauma Without

Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time, it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki.

Time Me Look Back Now More

When I got to 40 or so... 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.

Life Control Thought My Life Back

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 People Thought Movies Strange

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