What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity. Kazuo Ishiguro More Quotes by Kazuo Ishiguro More Quotes From Kazuo Ishiguro An artist's concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it. Kazuo Ishiguro concerncaptureartist I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that? Kazuo Ishiguro dignitymademistake As with a wound on one's own body, it is possible to develop an intimacy with the most disturbing of things Kazuo Ishiguro disturbingintimacybody Because maybe, in a way, we didn't leave it behind nearly as much as we might once have thought. Because somewhere underneath, a part of us stayed like that: fearful of the world around us, and no matter how much we despised ourselves for it--unable quite to let each other go. Kazuo Ishiguro letting-gomightworld 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 parentteacherchildren Everything might scatter. You might be right. I suppose it's something we can't easily get away from. People need to feel they belong. To a nation, to a race. Otherwise, who knows what might happen? This civilisation of ours, perhaps it'll just collapse. And everything scatter, as you put it. Kazuo Ishiguro racefearpeople But then, I suppose, when with the benefit of hindsight one begins to search one's past for such 'turning points', one is apt to start seeing them everywhere. Kazuo Ishiguro hindsightbenefitspast I want my words to survive translation. Kazuo Ishiguro translationswant 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 fatehouserunning I cannot start a story or chapter without knowing how it ends. ... Of course, it rarely ends that way. Kazuo Ishiguro craftsknowingstories It never occurred to me that our lives, until then so closely interwoven, could unravel and separate over a thing like that. But the fact was, I suppose, there were powerful tides tugging us apart by then, and it only needed something like that to finish the task. If we'd understood that back then-who knows?-maybe we'd have kept a tighter hold of one another. Kazuo Ishiguro tuggingpowerfullove Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking. Kazuo Ishiguro momentsshouldheart All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma. Kazuo Ishiguro traumagrowing-upchildren 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 playfictionthinking There was surely nothing to indicate at the time that such evidently small incidents would render whole dreams forever irredeemable. Kazuo Ishiguro incidentsdreamforever The problem, as I see it, is that you've been told and not told. You've been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people are quite happy to leave it that way. Kazuo Ishiguro never-let-me-gopeopleway What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time. Kazuo Ishiguro enough-timecarpe-diempeople 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 ivorywritingpeople 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 writingsongthinking I don't really like to work with literary allusions very much. I never want to be in a position where I'm saying, "You've got to read a lot of other stuff" or "You've got to have had a good education in literature to fully appreciate what I'm doing." Kazuo Ishiguro good-educationappreciateliterature
