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Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro
Japanese Author
Born: Nov 8, 1954
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Related authors: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn C. S. Lewis Frederick Douglass George Orwell Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Mark Twain Zig Ziglar
I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are there. In the end, as a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened. Kazuo Ishiguro
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All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma. Kazuo Ishiguro
Deceived Without Up Children Trauma Grow Grow Up
When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it. Kazuo Ishiguro
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As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened. Kazuo Ishiguro
People Tell Rather More Writer Than Happened Interested Themselves Actually
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
You Memory Fluid Fall Fragment Mimicking Took Way Solid Scene Fact Write Writer Like Another Years Just Place Apart Then Works Actually
The book was at a reasonably high position on the New York Times... before I was in the country. I thought it would be an interesting experiment to see if my presence here would push it up or down. Kazuo Ishiguro
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People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different. Kazuo Ishiguro
Book People Values Winner Year Every Recommended Something Sure Because Prize Quite Being Different Literary Means Stands
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
Time Home Family Money Problems Wife Lunch More Very Much Fortunate Commute
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. Kazuo Ishiguro
Life Writing Face Become Difficult Think Side Promotion Something Having More Writer Writers Balancing Lot Public Much Now
Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, that's 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me. Kazuo Ishiguro
War Time Family Me History Thought Yesterday Think Our Ancient Seems Like Arrived Years Years Ago England Now
When I got to 40 or so... 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. Kazuo Ishiguro
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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
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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. Kazuo Ishiguro
Generation People World About Rather Part Feel Idealistic Became Issues Were Just Disillusioned Social Who Services
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
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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? Kazuo Ishiguro
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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. Kazuo Ishiguro
Book Words Will Three Translation Believe Spend Way Those Danish Fact Write Journalists Over Days Know Leaning Go Denmark Survive Intensely Being Want Wherever Informs To Survive Shoulder Now
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. Kazuo Ishiguro
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I'm always trying to make something that is impossible to film. Why would somebody just read a novel when they can see it on TV or in the cinema? 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
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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. Kazuo Ishiguro
Music About More Know Read Curious Want Interested Younger Much Film Now
When I write a novel, I want it to be completely different from a screenplay. I'm very conscious of the difference, and I want novels to work purely as novels. Otherwise I don't see how they'll survive - why don't we just all go to the movies or watch television. Kazuo Ishiguro
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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. Kazuo Ishiguro
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I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers. Kazuo Ishiguro
Great Detective Fondness Had Always Fiction Dorothy Agatha Christie English
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
Me Say Mythical Jonathan Like Demonstrate Link Place Might England Deep
There comes a point when you can more or less count the number of books you're going to write before you die. Kazuo Ishiguro
You Before Books More More Or Less Point Write Count Die Going Less Number
I don't hang out with the glitteringly successful people; I hang out with people who've been friends for many years, and to some extent I feel my worldly success is a bit uncomfortable for them. Kazuo Ishiguro
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I spent ages figuring out things like viewpoint, how you tell the story, and so on. Kazuo Ishiguro
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