Kazuo Ishiguro is a British novelist, short story writer and screenwrite. Born on 8th November 1954 in Nagasaki, Japan, Ishiguro came with his family to the UK in 1960 when he was just five years old.
Ishiguro went on to study at the University of Kent, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in English and Philosophy in 1978 and attaining his masters in creative writing in 1980.
Today Kazuo Ishiguro is best known for novels such as The Remains of the Day, and Never Let Me Go, and for his four Booker Prize nominations and his Nobel Prize in Literature. Today we’re bringing you some of our favourite quotes from the author, we hope you enjoy!
“You have to accept that sometimes that’s how things happen in this world. People’s opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.”
“It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you’ve made, and there’s this panic because you don’t know yet the scale of disaster you’ve left yourself open to.”
“The evening’s the best part of the day. You’ve done your day’s work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.”
“As a writer, I’m more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened”
“It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed. If I’d known, maybe I’d have kept tighter hold of them, and not let unseen tides pull us apart.”
“If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.”
“But then again I wonder if what we feel in our hearts today isn’t like these raindrops still falling on us from the soaked leaves above, even though the sky itself long stopped raining. I’m wondering if without our memories, there’s nothing for it but for our love to fade and die.”
“After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?”
“As with a wound on one’s own body, it is possible to develop an intimacy with the most disturbing of things”
“What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.”
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