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• To see the best before I have properly begun would be somewhat premature.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Would Be, Premature

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2010). “The Remains of the Day”, p.25, Vintage

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• And I'm a Hailsham student - which is enough by itself sometimes to get people's backs up.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  People, Students, Sometimes

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2009). “Never Let Me Go”, p.3, Faber & Faber

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• I think the judging process is full of integrity, compared to some other prizes around the world. The fact that they change the panel of judges every year keeps it from becoming corrupt. I think it's very difficult if you've got judges for life; obviously relationships are cultivated between judges and authors, and publishing houses.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Change, Integrity, Thinking

  "Kazuo Ishiguro remembers when" By Adam Dunn, www.cnn.com.

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• I actually dislike, more than many people, working through literary allusion. I just feel that there's something a bit snobbish or elitist about that. I don't like it as a reader, when I'm reading something. It's not just the elitism of it; it jolts me out of the mode in which I'm reading. I've immersed myself in the world and then when the light goes on I'm supposed to be making some kind of literary comparison to another text. I find I'm pulled out of my kind of fictional world, I'm asked to use my brain in a different kind of way. I don't like that.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Reading, People, Brain

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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

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• One need hardly dwell on the catastrophic possibility of uttering a bantering remark only to discover it wholly inappropriate

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Needs, Inappropriate, Possibility

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2010). “The Remains of the Day”, p.16, Vintage

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• 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.

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• 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

  Writing, Energy, Doe

  "Kazuo Ishiguro remembers when" by Adam Dunn, www.cnn.com.

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• It is all very well, in these changing times, to adapt one's work to take in duties not traditionally within one's realm; but bantering is of another dimension altogether. For one thing, how would one know for sure that at any given moment a response of the bantering sort is truly what is expected? One need hardly dwell on the catastrophic possibility of uttering a bantering remark only to discover it wholly inappropriate.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Needs, Dimensions, Inappropriate

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2010). “The Remains of the Day”, p.16, Vintage

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• But I really wanted to find it for you. And when it looked in the end like it wasn't going to turn up, I just said to myself, one day I'll go to Norfolk and I'll find it there for her.' 'The lost corner of England,' I said.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  One Day, England, Lost

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2009). “Never Let Me Go”, p.155, Faber & Faber

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• I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the field and gradually get larger until I'd see it was Tommy, and he'd wave, and maybe even call.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Eye, Long, Childhood

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2009). “Never Let Me Go”, p.263, Faber & Faber

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• She might be a great person, but life's so much bigger than just loving someone.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Loving Someone, Might, Bigger

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2009). “Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall”, p.182, Faber & Faber

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• You could say I'd rewritten the same novel three times and I thought I had to move on. The success of the book, and then the movie, had by then also created a commercial expectation and I remember touring America and seeing people in the audiences who I thought might not want to read the books I wanted to write next. My constituency had become broader, but more mysterious to me.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Moving, Book, Writing

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

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• 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.

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• We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Art, Soul, Never Let Me Go

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2009). “Never Let Me Go”, p.238, Faber & Faber

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• 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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• The Booker triumph of Graham Swift's moving, effortlessly profound Last Orders is a vindication of the quiet, much-misunderstood path this fine writer chose to take after the brilliance of Waterland more than ten years ago.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Moving, Order, Years

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• I don't have a deep link with England like, say, Jonathan Coe or Hanif Kureishi might demonstrate. For me it is like a mythical place.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Links, Might, England

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

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• One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Events

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2010). “The Remains of the Day”, p.9, Vintage

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• I don't think it's any fun, even if you are one of the most respected authors in the world like Margaret Atwood, to keep being nominated and not win.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Fun, Winning, Thinking

  "Kazuo Ishiguro remembers when" By Adam Dunn, www.cnn.com.

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• I like the fact that by mimicking the way memory works, a writer can actually write in a fluid way - one solid scene doesn't have to fall on another solid scene, you can just have a fragment that then dovetails into another one that took place 30 years apart from it.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Memories, Fall, Writing

  "Kazuo Ishiguro remembers when" by Adam Dunn, www.cnn.com.

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• So why not become a mongrel? It's healthy

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Healthy, Why Not

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2009). “When We Were Orphans”, p.56, Faber & Faber

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• 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

  Thinking, Play, Fiction

  "This much I know: Kazuo Ishiguro". Interview With Chris Sullivan, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2011.

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• There was surely nothing to indicate at the time that such evidently small incidents would render whole dreams forever irredeemable.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Dream, Forever, Incidents

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2010). “The Remains of the Day”, p.179, Vintage

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• 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.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Writing, Ivory, People

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

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