Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Kazuo Ishiguro quotes and sayings page 2 (70 year old author). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 61 we have for him.
“Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.”
“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
“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.”
“As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.”
“I started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I've always seen my stories as enlarged songs.”
“I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.”
“Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time, it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki.”
“I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend three days being intensely interrogated by journalists in Denmark or wherever. That fact, I believe, informs the way I write - with those Danish journalists leaning over my shoulder.”
“I work very regular hours, roughly 9 to 5:30. I think I have it much easier than a lot of parents. I just sit at home, I have a very flexible timetable, and I'm very fortunate in that I don't have money problems. I have lunch with my wife at home. I don't have to commute, so I have much more time with my family.”
“Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory. I like the atmospheres that result if episodes are narrated through the haze of memory.”
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