Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Book, Mean, Years

• I took one glance at her in that hospital bed under the dull light and recognised the look on her face, which I'd seen on donors often enough before. It was like she was willing her eyes to see right inside herself, so she could patrol and marshal all the better the separate areas of pain in her body.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Pain, Book, Eye

• The book was at a reasonably high position on the New York Times... before I was in the country. I thought it would be an interesting experiment to see if my presence here would push it up or down.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Country, New York, Book

• If I'm alone at home, I get increasingly restless, bothered by the idea that I'm missing some crucial encounter out there somewhere. But if I'm left by myself in someone else's place, I often find myself a nice sense of peace engulfing me. I love sinking into an unfamiliar sofa with whatever book happens to be lying nearby.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Nice, Lying, Book

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2009). “Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall”, p.54, Faber & Faber

• When I see films made from books, I make a huge effort not to remember the book. It's important to see the film as a film.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Book, Effort, Important

• I had been plunged into a different world. I found myself spending half my time answering weird questions on book tours in the Midwest. People would stand up and explain to me the situation in their office and ask me whether they should resign or not.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Book, Hiking, People

• Throughout my career I've struggled to encourage people to read my books on a more metaphorical level. I'm less attached to my settings than, for example, Saul Bellow. The setting of a novel for me is just a part of the technique. I choose it at the end.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Book, Careers, People

  "I Remain Fascinated by Memory". Interview with Michael Scott Moore and Michael Sontheimer, www.spiegel.de. October 5, 2005.

• I 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 Ishiguro

  Believe, Book, Writing

• 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

  Book, Fiction, Relate

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Dream, Travel, Book

  "Living memories". Interview with Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2005.

• You could say I'd rewritten the same novel three times and I thought I had to move on. The success of the book, and then the movie, had by then also created a commercial expectation and I remember touring America and seeing people in the audiences who I thought might not want to read the books I wanted to write next. My constituency had become broader, but more mysterious to me.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Moving, Book, Writing

  "Living memories" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2005.

• 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

  Book, Writing, Numbers

  "Kazuo Ishiguro: 'I was quite ready for something that would be quite difficult for me to write'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2009.

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