Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  People, Literature, Self Deception

  FaceBook post by Kazuo Ishiguro from Aug 07, 2014

• 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.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Book, Mean, Years

• The book was at a reasonably high position on the New York Times... before I was in the country. I thought it would be an interesting experiment to see if my presence here would push it up or down.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Country, New York, Book

• 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.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Thinking, Talking, Cynical

  "Living memories" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2005.

• There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the world and make sense of their lives? To what extent can they transcend their fate? As time starts to run out, what are the things that really matter?

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Running, Fate, House

  FaceBook post by Kazuo Ishiguro from Oct 30, 2011

• 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.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Kazuo Ishiguro from Sep 05, 2011

• I don't really like to work with literary allusions very much. I never want to be in a position where I'm saying, "You've got to read a lot of other stuff" or "You've got to have had a good education in literature to fully appreciate what I'm doing."

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Appreciate, Literature, Good Education

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• 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.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Writing, Thinking, Literature

  "Kazuo Ishiguro remembers when". Interview with Adam Dunn, www.cnn.com. October 27, 2000.

• 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.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Thinking, Awards, Japan

  "Living memories" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2005.

• If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Song, Real, Connections

  "Living memories" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2005.

• My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Hero, People, Generations

  "Living memories" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2005.

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

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Looks, Exotic, Literature

  "'For me, England is a mythical place'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2005.

• People were incredibly kind to our family and went out of their way to help.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  People, Literature, Way

  "Living memories". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2005.

• 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.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Decision, Literature, Mess

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

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Artist, Literature, World

  "In the land of memory: Kazuo Ishiguro remembers when". Interview with Adam Dunn, www.cnn.com. October 27, 2000.

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