Books Ishiguro Quotes & Sayings

He shook his head and looked away, as if he was giving himself a firm lecture only he could here. — Roni Loren

Watching my daughter sort of live in this world where a photograph is not something to keep a memory. It's something to just speak with. It's language. — Alec Soth

To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you. — Anais Nin

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

I am a showman by profession ... and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me. — P.T. Barnum

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

Patrick Cheng's Radical Love is not only an excellent introduction to LGBT theology but an important contribution to the discipline of theology and the life of the church. It is a must read for anyone who cares about the health of the church and theology today. — James H. Cone

I'd say that if you had a strained relationship with your mom, for whatever reason, the best thing to do is be open with each other, talk it over, try and work it out somehow as opposed to just putting a wall up and pushing them away. — Victoria Justice

I like so many different kinds of chick flicks. I like rom-coms, I like female friendship movies. — Drew Barrymore

When you are an artist you can turn your hand to anything, in any style. Once you have the tools then all the artforms are the same in the end. — David Bowie

Success begins at that magical moment when you declare to yourself, your friends, and the universe that you believe you can do something different. — Natalie Massenet

For what else is nostalgia but this? That immense ache in the heart that seems immeasurable, massive, spilling over the future that longs for things that can no longer be. (Foreword to Exie Abola's Trafficking in Nostalgia) — Rica Bolipata-Santos

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

Lust and the English make no sense to me. — Paul Monette

Industry is the ceaseless piracy of the rich against the poor. — Emma Goldman

Bad times are indelible. They stay with you forever. — Lee Iacocca

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

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

One with true creativity can erase their one past, and replace it with an infinite number of pasts, creating new possibilities for the future. — Lionel Suggs

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

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