Yashiki Kazuo Quotes

Oji just happened to suggest he had one or two ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

Their points sharpened like giant pencils, completely ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

What kind of god is it, sir, wishes wrong to go forgotten and unpunished? ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

It's nonsense to believe people go on loving each other regardless of what happens. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

And when someone's asking you to do something in such a pleading way, everything goes against saying no. I ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

Who knows what will come when quick-tongued men make ancient grievances rhyme with fresh desire for land and conquest? ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

The danger isn't the river's speed, friend, but its slowness. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

I think genre rules should be porous, if not nonexistent. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

The rest of my life stretches out as an emptiness before me. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

Leave us, you were always on the outside of our love. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

One should not, in any case, attempt to make a virtue out of one's limitations. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

Silence is just as likely to indicate the most profound ideas forming, the deepest energies being summoned. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

What's going on here, Tommy? Has Keffers recruited you for his porn patrol? ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

Night, and besides, was ably helped by brave comrades." "The comrades he speaks of," Ivor said, "were too busy ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

This country awakens so many memories, though each seems like some restless sparrow I know will flee any moment into the breeze. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

I for one will never doubt that a desire to see 'justice in this world' lay at the heart of all his actions. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

for if we're mortal let us at least shine handsomely in God's eyes while we walk this earth! Like ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

As with a wound on one's own body, it is possible to develop an intimacy with the most disturbing of things ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

An artist's concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

You could sense just from the huge sky, that you were walking towards the sea. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

When the hour's too late for rescue, it's still early enough for revenge. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

She always wanted to believe in things. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

Can it be, husband, you still fear the mist's fading, never mind the promise I made you? ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

When Winston Churchill was asked to cut arts funding in favour of the war effort, he simply asked,'then what are we fighting for? ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

Perhaps God's so deeply ashamed of us, of something we did, that he's wishing himself to forget. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

For their kind do not know what it is to risk everything in the endeavor to rise above the mediocre. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

Resolved not to waste further time on account of this childish affair, I contemplated departure via the french windows. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

And I'm a Hailsham student - which is enough by itself sometimes to get people's backs up. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

Why, Mr Stevens, why, why, why do you always have to pretend? ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

Foolishness, sir. How can old wounds heal while maggots linger so richly? Or a peace hold for ever built on slaughter and a magician's trickery? ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

Our life together's like a tale with a happy end, no matter what turns it took in the way. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

When a man induces his wife to turn suspicious thoughts against her own father, then that is surely cause enough for resentment. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

It would be the saddest thing to me, princess. To walk separately from you, when the ground will let us go as we always did. Beatrice ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

Comics are carried by characters. If a character is well-created, the comic becomes a hit. ~ Kazuo Koike

Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory ... ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

But God will know the slow tread of an old couple's love for each other, and understand how black shadows make part of its whole. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished? ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

I spent ages figuring out things like viewpoint, how you tell the story, and so on. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

How can old wounds heal while maggots linger so richly? ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

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 Ishiguro

How so much honourable is such a contest, in which one's moral conduct and achievement are brought as witnesses rather than the size of one's purse.
#Page: 10 ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time, it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

A couple may claim to be bonded by love, but we boatmen may see instead resentment, anger, even hatred. Or a great barrenness. Sometimes a fear of loneliness and nothing more. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans? ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

It doesn't matter how old someone is, it's what they've experienced that counts. People can get to be a hundred and not experience a thing. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

For some reason, we called it "umbrella sex"; if you fancied someone your own sex, you were "an umbrella. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they'd once belonged to the sea. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

There is certainly a satisfaction and dignity to be gained in coming to terms with the mistakes one has made in the course of one's life ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

Dinner will be served at the usual time and I am pleased to say there will be no discernible traces left of the recent occurrence by that time. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

... when people are getting poorer, and children are growing more hungry and sick all around you, it is simply not enough for an artist to hide away somewhere, perfecting pictures of courtesans. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

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

Plenty of couples, they start off loving each other, then get tired of each other, end up hating each other. Sometimes though it goes the other way. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

I think it's quite difficult to understand what kind of life a writer leads. They might be millionaires, or they might be starving people. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

I don't know why, but it didn't seem an option for more than one of us to storm off, and I wanted to make sure that one was me. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

In any case, there is surely no great shame in mistakes made in the best of faith. It is surely a thing far more shameful go be unable or unwilling to acknowledge them. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

Why should one not enjoy in a light-hearted sort of way stories of ladies and gentlemen who fall in love and express their feelings for each other, often in most elegant phrases? ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

Then he took the sword in both hands and raised it - and Gawain's posture took on an unmistakable grandeur. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

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

What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

It would have been so stupid, Niki went on, If you would just accepted everything the way it was and just stayed where you were. At least you made an effort. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

Every country should have a strong literary tradition of its own at the center, but it should also have an interest in other countries. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

I don't think it's any fun, even if you are one of the most respected authors in the world like Margaret Atwood, to keep being nominated and not win. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

In reply to the often asked question why he performs dressed as a woman, Kazuo has repeatedly stated: "My intention in dressing as a woman onstage has never been to become a female impersonator, or to transform myself into a woman. Rather, I want to trace my life back to its most distant origins. More so than anything else, I long to return to where I've come from. ~ Kazuo Ohno

The best things, he always used to say, are put together of a night and vanish with the morning. What people call the floating world, Ono, was a world Gisaburo knew how to value. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

I wouldn't want to try to adapt something of my own. It would be like going back to school and doing all my exams again. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

But you will no doubt agree that the very best staff plans are those which give clear margins of error to allow for those days when an employee is ill or for one reason or another below par. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

A lot of the time, how you were regarded at Hailsham, how much you were liked and respected, had to do with how good you were at "creating." Ruth ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

Where once we fought for land and God, we now fought to avenge fallen comrades, themselves slaughtered in vengeance. Where could it end? Babes growing to men knowing only days of war. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

The obsessions with eloquence and general knowledge would appear to be ones that emerged with our generation, probably in the wake of Mr Marshall, when lesser men trying to emulate his greatness mistook the superficial for the essence. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

I started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I've always seen my stories as enlarged songs. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

It was like there was some parallel universe we all vanished off to where we had all this sex. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

Now naturally, like many of us, I have a reluctance to change too much of the old ways. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

She might be a great person, but life's so much bigger than just loving someone. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

When it was too late for rescue, it was still early enough for revenge. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

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

How often have you know it for the butler who is on everyone's lips one day as the greatest of his generation to be proved demonstrably within a few years to have been nothing of the sort? ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

A father knows his child's heart, as only a child can know his fathers. ~ Kazuo Koike

I grew up in Britain before it became a multicultural place, so in many ways I have a nostalgia for an England that's vanished - the England of my childhood has actually disappeared. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

I 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 Ishiguro

Too many people think only of their own profit. But business opportunity seldom knocks on the door of self-centered people. No customer ever goes to a store merely to please the storekeeper. ~ Kazuo Inamori

The Booker triumph of Graham Swift's moving, effortlessly profound Last Orders is a vindication of the quiet, much-misunderstood path this fine writer chose to take after the brilliance of Waterland more than ten years ago. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

Everything suddenly felt perfect: an hour set aside, stretching ahead of us, and there wasn't a better way to spend it. I had to really hold myself back from giggling stupidly, or jumping up and down on the pavement like a little kid. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

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

I've come to appreciate cooking over the years. It's an art, I'm convinced of it, just as noble as painting or poetry. It's not appreciated simply because the product disappears so quickly ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

It's all right. I'm not upset. After all, they were just things. When you've lost your mother and your father, you can't care so much about things, can you? ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

It was like being given a maths problem when your brain's exhausted, and you know there's some far-off solution, but you can't work up the energy even to give it a go. Something in me just gave up. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

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

I was wondering, princess. Could it be our love would never have grown so strong down the years had the mist not robbed us the way it did? Perhaps it allowed old wounds to heal. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

But in the end, stories are about one person saying to another: This is the way it feels to me. Can you understand what I'm saying? Does it also feel this way to you? ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

I find Japanese books quite baffling when I read them in translation. It's only with Haruki Murakami that I find Japanse fiction that I can understand and relate to. He's a very international writer. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, that's 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

I think there is a huge difference between writers who have very big sales, and writers who have small sales. Even writers with very high reputations, even Nobel prize winners, often sell in very low figures. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

And there was a tree stump outside the Black Barn everyone called 'Dave's stump' because for over three years, until a few weeks before our arrival, he'd sat on it to read and write, sometimes even when it was raining or cold. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that? ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

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. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

When you are young, there are many things which appear dull and lifeless. But as you get older, you will find these are the very things that are most important to you. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

When you're lucky enough to have a good film made of your novel - and 'Never Let Me Go' is, believe me, a heartbreakingly good film indeed - you get wonderfully talented individuals each focusing on their special area. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro