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Kazuo Ishiguro

I wouldn’t want to try to adapt something of my own. It would be like going back to school and doing all my exams again.

– Kazuo Ishiguro

Kazuo Ishiguro

Even though I spent the first five years of my life in Nagasaki, going to Japan can be really difficult. Even if they know I’ve been brought up in the West, they still expect me to understand all the subtleties of their culture, and if I get it wrong, it matters much more than if a British person gets it wrong. I find it intimidating.

– Kazuo Ishiguro

Kazuo Ishiguro

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

Kazuo Ishiguro

I loved cowboy films and TV series, and I learned bits of English from them. My favorite was ‘Laramie’, with Robert Fuller and John Smith. I used to watch ‘The Lone Ranger’, which had been famous in Japan as well. I idolized these cowboys.

– Kazuo Ishiguro

Kazuo Ishiguro

I spent ages figuring out things like viewpoint, how you tell the story, and so on.

– Kazuo Ishiguro

Kazuo Ishiguro

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

Kazuo Ishiguro

There’s something very misleading about the literary culture that looks at writers in their 30s and calls them ‘budding’ or ‘promising’, when in fact they’re peaking.

– Kazuo Ishiguro

Kazuo Ishiguro

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

Kazuo Ishiguro

When you’re lucky enough to have a good film made of your novel – and ‘Never Let Me Go’ is, believe me, a heartbreakingly good film indeed – you get wonderfully talented individuals each focusing on their special area.

– Kazuo Ishiguro

Kazuo Ishiguro

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

Kazuo Ishiguro

I want my words to survive translation.

– Kazuo Ishiguro

Kazuo Ishiguro

To some extent, at least, you have to shield children from what you know and drip-feed information to them. Sometimes that is kindly meant, and sometimes not.

– Kazuo Ishiguro

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