Author: Kazuo Ishiguro

Quotes

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

- Kazuo Ishiguro

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.

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.

- Kazuo Ishiguro

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.

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

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

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

- Kazuo Ishiguro

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

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

- Kazuo Ishiguro

Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

- Kazuo Ishiguro

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