Kazuo Ishiguro World Quotations

Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.

The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists.

I like novelists who can create other interesting worlds.

Because maybe, in a way, we didn't leave it behind nearly as much as we might once have thought. Because somewhere underneath, a part of us stayed like that: fearful of the world around us, and no matter how much we despised ourselves for it--unable quite to let each other go.

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.