Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

Throughout My Career I've Struggled To Encourage People To Read My Books On A More Metaphorical Level. I'm Less Attached To My Settings Than, For Example, Saul Bellow. The Setting Of A Novel For Me Is Just A Part Of The Technique. I Choose It At The End.

I Find Japanese Books Quite Baffling When I Read Them In Translation. It's Only With Haruki Murakami That I Find Japanse Fiction That I Can Understand And Relate To. He's A Very International Writer.

Every Country Should Have A Strong Literary Tradition Of Its Own At The Center, But It Should Also Have An Interest In Other Countries.

I Took One Glance At Her In That Hospital Bed Under The Dull Light And Recognised The Look On Her Face, Which I'd Seen On Donors Often Enough Before. It Was Like She Was Willing Her Eyes To See Right Inside Herself, So She Could Patrol And Marshal All The Better The Separate Areas Of Pain In Her Body.

Poor Creatures. What Did We Do To You? With All Our Schemes And Plans?

My Donors Have Always Tended To Do Much Better Than Expected.

It Was Like There Was Some Parallel Universe We All Vanished Off To Where We Had All This Sex.

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.

When I Was Younger, I Didn't Read That Much. I Was More Interested In Film And Music. Now I'm Curious. I Want To Know What It's All About.

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.

If You Look At My Last Songs And First Short Stories, There Is A Real Connection Between Them.

When A Man Induces His Wife To Turn Suspicious Thoughts Against Her Own Father, Then That Is Surely Cause Enough For Resentment.