Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

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.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TimeEnergyProblemWhyMoreWrite

I'm big-busted... I can't always wear the cutest bras, and it makes me so mad.

Jessica Simpson

MeMadAlwaysWearBrasMakes

They divided the city into three electoral wards, and in one ward there was 70 percent of the people, the Catholic population, and they elected eight representatives to the city council.

John Hume

PeopleCityThreeDividedPopulation

The witch-hunting McCarthy era found Hollywood's view of the press growing bleaker along with the decade's view of everything else.

Steve Erickson

ViewGrowingHollywoodEverything

Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.

Soren Kierkegaard

BeginningEvilWorldBoredomBack

I like when an audience doesn't know what's going to happen to a character, and I like when I don't know. I'm learning, too - I don't get the script, like, until the last day.

Miriam Shor

LearningCharacterDayKnowAudience

Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.

Louise Bourgeois

StoryInterestingYouWillTellOwn

Some people play steel string beautifully, but I'm not exactly a world-class picker.

Lou Barlow

PeoplePlaySteelSome PeopleSome

In a globalised world, so many of us move around so much. You lose things, but you also gain things - or hope to gain them.

Claire Messud

HopeWorldYouLoseThingsUs

And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything.

Pierre de Fermat

MeKnowWillEverythingPosterity

The independent route was the best move for me. But I think I've maximized everything I could do independently. I've done everything out the mixtape market. I think getting the big machine behind you is the next stage when you've maximized the independent level.

Two Chainz

BestMeThinkYouDoneIndependent

To this wonderful page in our country's history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters.

Giuseppe Garibaldi

HistoryFreeCountrySwordPage

I was a thrower. I think I'm more of a pitcher now.

Drew Pomeranz

ThinkNowMorePitcherI Think

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