This is the big question that we all have about our children: How much, how soon, do we tell our children the less comfortable facts about the world they’re going to inherit? Kazuo Ishiguro Read Quote
When I write a novel, I want it to be completely different from a screenplay. I’m very conscious of the difference, and I want novels to work purely as novels. Otherwise I don’t see how they’ll survive – why don’t we just all go to the movies or watch television. Kazuo Ishiguro Read Quote
I try to always go for something… very interior, following thoughts and memories, something that I think is difficult to do on the screen, which is essentially a third-person medium. Kazuo Ishiguro Read Quote
When I see films made from books, I make a huge effort not to remember the book. It’s important to see the film as a film. Kazuo Ishiguro Read Quote
There’s something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom of a middle-aged person. The further you get from childhood and the experience of the teenage years, the greater the danger of losing that wellspring. Kazuo Ishiguro Read Quote
My wife is the most savage critic. She doesn’t feel intimidated by my reputation. As far as she’s concerned, she’s just criticising a boyfriend who’d recently had a go at fiction. She can tell me to abandon whole novels. Kazuo Ishiguro Read Quote
I’ve always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers. Kazuo Ishiguro Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
