Kazuo Ishiguro

If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#life-experience #self-development #experience

An artist's concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#art #artist #beauty #art

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

#ancient #arrived #england #family #history

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

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#help #incredibly #kind #our #out

Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#books #care #determined #dreams #friends

All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#deceived #grow #grow up #trauma #up

The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#authors #crawling #like #now #performance

There's a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer's head, to continually analyze why they write, where it all comes from, where it's going to. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#analyze #comes #continually #does #energy

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

#book #country #down #experiment #here

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

#become #bubble #child #controlling #innocence