Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

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.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: japanese
  • Birth: November 8, 1954

Topics

ThinkYouCinemaPlayWhySee

The work completed during the special session was just the beginning. During those six days we lit a spark that will positively impact the lives of our children and grandchildren, but the full fire is yet to come.

Joe Manchin

WorkChildrenFireBeginningImpact

If you can't laugh at your own characters, or shed a tear for them, or even get angry at one of them, no one else will either.

Johanna Lindsey

AngryLaughYouWillOwnGet

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

John Milton

BlindBearMiserableBlindnessAble

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

Robert Louis Stevenson

TreeAncestorsTopOwnHisEach

I'm a complete skeptic when it comes to the supernatural and all that. I've never had any ghost stories or any kind of weird experiences.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

WeirdKindNeverExperiencesGhost

Our constituents deserve better than narrow-minded political games.

Stephen Fincher

BetterPoliticalGamesDeserveThan

I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about normal.

Townes Van Zandt

KnowKindWhyWriteNormalGuy

I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.

Tom Waits

GreatAppreciationThinkJazzAlways

I'm endlessly fascinated by parenting, marriage, my wife and the ins and outs of marriage.

Rob Delaney

MarriageParentingWifeFascinated

I think if you want to make a performance authentic, there are a certain amount of leaps of faith into the unknown that you have to take. Otherwise, you're not really risking anything. I think if you don't risk something in art, it's not really important.

Ruth Negga

FaithArtPerformanceThinkYou

Think of our physical sustenance. It is truly heaven-sent. The necessities of air, food, and water all come to us as gifts from a loving Heavenly Father.

Russell M. Nelson

FatherWaterFoodThinkLovingAir

You see, feminists don't really like to define the Patriarchy. They prefer to keep it nebulous and amorphous so they can conveniently blame it for everything that goes wrong in their lives. Not being paid enough? Patriarchy! Not getting a promotion? Patriarchy! Too many catcalls? Patriarchy! Too few catcalls? Patriarchy!

Milo Yiannopoulos

BlameEnoughYouPromotionWrong

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