And if these incidents now seem full of significance and all of a piece, it's probably because I'm looking at them in the light of what came later.
Kazuo IshiguroI started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I've always seen my stories as enlarged songs.
Kazuo IshiguroAs a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
Kazuo IshiguroI want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend three days being intensely interrogated by journalists in Denmark or wherever. That fact, I believe, informs the way I write - with those Danish journalists leaning over my shoulder.
Kazuo IshiguroA man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he fails and loses a fortune on account of his ambitions (...) if one has failed only where others have not had the courage or will to try, there is consolation - indeed, deep satisfaction - to be gained from his observation when looking back over one's life. #Page no.134
Kazuo Ishiguro