Kazuo Ishiguro

Kazuo Ishiguro

08-Nov-1954


Japan


Novelist

Sir Kazuo Ishiguro is an eminent British short-story writer, novelist, and screenwriter. He is regarded as one of the finest contemporary fiction authors. He was nominated for the ‘Man Booker Prize,’ several times and bagged in the award for ‘The Remains of the Day,’ in 1989. He also earned accolades for his novel ‘Never Let Me Go.’ He received the ‘Nobel Prize in Literature,’ in 2017. In 2018, he was also knighted in the ‘Queen’s Birthday Honours List.’ Let us browse through the inspirational quotes by Kazuo Ishiguro, which have been collected from his books, novels, plays, stories, tweets, public utterances, and interviews. Take a look at some thoughts by Kazuo Ishiguro on history, energy, children, dreams, travel, generation, politics, future, connection, believe and many other topics.

QUOTES BY Kazuo Ishiguro


There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.

Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.

We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.

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.

You have to accept that sometimes that's how things happen in this world. People's opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.

You say you’re sure? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple?

All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.

She always wanted to believe in things.

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