Ishiguro Books Quotes & Sayings

Walking among three people, I find my teacher among them. I choose that which is good in them and follow it, and that which is bad and change it. — Confucius

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

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

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

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

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

Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently as possible. — James Surowiecki

Thousands of persons, many of whom never darkened the door of a college, have learned to read books that most of our college graduates fear to tackle. teachers who understand this fact can help a student read the books that educated the Founding Fathers but not by explaining in lectures what the author would have said if he had been as bright as the lecturer. — Stringfellow Barr

The joyful acceptance of a limited world, of which I am only a small moment and limited part - this is probably the clearest indication of a man in his fullness. — Richard Rohr

He is altogether selfish, she thought in some surprise, the only man I have ever sat and talked to alone, and I am impatient; he is simply not very interesting. — Shirley Jackson

It feels humiliating to be in a band where you have to be apologizing for one person all the time, — Mark Hoppus

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

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