Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)
Kazuo Ishiguro quotes and sayings page 5 (70 year old author). Here's quote # 41 through 50 out of the 61 we have for him.
“The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists.”
“There comes a point when you can more or less count the number of books you're going to write before you die.”
“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.”
“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?”
“I do feel part of that generation of people who were rather idealistic in the '70s and became disillusioned in the '80s. Not just about social services issues, but the world.”
“I had been plunged into a different world. I found myself spending half my time answering weird questions on book tours in the Midwest. People would stand up and explain to me the situation in their office and ask me whether they should resign or not.”
“I try to always go for something... very interior, following thoughts and memories, something that I think is difficult to do on the screen, which is essentially a third-person medium.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
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