I can see,โ Miss Emily said, โthat it might look as though you were simply pawns in a game. It can certainly be looked at like that. But think of it. You were lucky pawns. There was a certain climate and now itโs gone. You have to accept that sometimes thatโs how things happen in the world. Peopleโs opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.โ โIt might be just some trend that came and went,โ I said. โBut for us, itโs our life.
Kazuo IshiguroI started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I've always seen my stories as enlarged songs.
Kazuo IshiguroTypically in my novels the narrator tells a story by remembering, and the memories are colored by this and colored by that. So the whole universe of the novel tends to be framed by the narrator's memories and thoughts.
Kazuo IshiguroI quizzed him a lot on this point and i suspect the truth was that it was like a lot of things at that age: you don't have any clear reason, you just do it. You do it because you think it might get a laugh, or because you want to see if it'll cause a stir. And when you're asked to explain afterwards, it doesn't seem to make any sense.
Kazuo Ishiguro