One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.
Kazuo IshiguroI 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 IshiguroI cannot start a story or chapter without knowing how it ends. ... Of course, it rarely ends that way.
Kazuo IshiguroThere's still a part of me that thinks I have to write a really good novel. I'm not trying to say I'm not happy with the novels I've written in the past. But it always feels to me like there's another one that I have to write that will really say what I want to say, and really paint this world that I can see hazily in my head.
Kazuo Ishiguro