And I’m a Hailsham student – which is enough by itself sometimes to get people’s backs up. — Kazuo Ishiguro
As a writer, I’m more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened. — Kazuo Ishiguro
I couldn’t speak japanese very well, passport regulations were changing, I felt british — Kazuo Ishiguro
If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them. — Kazuo Ishiguro
I’m very fortunate in that I don’t have money problems. I have lunch with my wife at home. — Kazuo Ishiguro
I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote merchant ivory movies. — Kazuo Ishiguro
I had been plunged into a different world. I found myself spending half my time answering — Kazuo Ishiguro
I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this — Kazuo Ishiguro
I do feel part of that generation of people who were rather idealistic in the ’70s and became — Kazuo Ishiguro
My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is bob dylan — Kazuo Ishiguro
Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory. — Kazuo Ishiguro
Our family arrived in england in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. — Kazuo Ishiguro
Now when I look back to the guildford of that time, it seems far more exotic to me than nagasaki. — Kazuo Ishiguro
The book was at a reasonably high position on the new york times… before I was in the country. — Kazuo Ishiguro
Screenplays I didn’t really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends — Kazuo Ishiguro
When I got to 40 or so… I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually — Kazuo Ishiguro
When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. — Kazuo Ishiguro
What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer’s life with the writing. — Kazuo Ishiguro
There’s a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what — Kazuo Ishiguro