451 Quotes by Kazuo Ishiguro

I wouldn't want to try to adapt something of my own. It would be like going back to school and doing all my exams again.

The fantasy never got beyond that—I didn’t let it—and though the tears rolled down my face, I wasn’t sobbing or out of control. I just waited a bit, then turned back to the car, to drive off to wherever it was I was supposed to be.

Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time, it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki.

The English landscape at its finest - such as I saw this morning - possesses a quality that the landscapes of other nations, however more superficially dramatic, inevitably fail to possess. It is, I believe, a quality that will mark out the English landscape to any objective observer as the most deeply satisfying in the world, and this quality is probably best summed up by the term 'greatness.'

I think jogging is bad for your health. All that pressure on the knees and back cannot be good for you.

I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.

To see the best before I have properly begun would be somewhat premature.

So why not become a mongrel? It's healthy

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.