Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes About Memories

Quotes about: Memories

• 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.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Memories, Fading, Never Let Me Go

  FaceBook post by Kazuo Ishiguro from Apr 30, 2014

• Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Memories, Remember, Realizing

  Kazuo Ishiguro (1982). “A Pale View of Hills”, Thorndike Press

• I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are there. In the end, as a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Memories, Opportunity, Self

  "In the Land of Memory" by Adam Dunn, edition.cnn.com. October 27, 2000.

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

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Memories, Writing, Texture

  "Kazuo Ishiguro remembers when". Interview with Adam Dunn, www.cnn.com. October 27, 2000.

• What he wanted was not just to hear about Hailsham, but to remember Hailsham, just like it had been his own childhood. He knew he was close to completing and so that's what he was doing: getting me to describe things to him, so they'd really sink in, so that maybe during those sleepless nights, with the drugs and the paint and the exhaustion, the line would blur between what were my memories and what were his.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Memories, Night, Childhood

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2009). “Never Let Me Go”, p.5, Faber & Faber

• I like the fact that by mimicking the way memory works, a writer can actually write in a fluid way - one solid scene doesn't have to fall on another solid scene, you can just have a fragment that then dovetails into another one that took place 30 years apart from it.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Memories, Fall, Writing

  "Kazuo Ishiguro remembers when" by Adam Dunn, www.cnn.com.

• 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

  Memories, Thinking, Trying

• Typically in my novels the narrator tells a story by remembering, and the memories are colored by this and colored by that. So the whole universe of the novel tends to be framed by the narrator's memories and thoughts.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Memories, Remember, Framed

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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