Kazuo Ishiguro

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened. ↗

— 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

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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. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

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I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff. ↗

— 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'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

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If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

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Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

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My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

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

— Kazuo Ishiguro

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