451 Quotes by Kazuo Ishiguro

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

When I was younger, I didn’t read that much. I was more interested in film and music. Now I’m curious. I want to know what it’s all about.

I just waited a bit, then turned back to the car, to drive off to wherever it was I was supposed to be.

That was one reason why we always thought so much about being in the window. Each of us had been promised our turn, and each of us longed for it to come.

Sometimes,’ she said, ’at special moments like that, people feel a pain alongside their happiness.

The fact is, of course,’ I said after a while, ‘I gave my best to Lord Darlington. I gave him the very best I had to give, and now – well – I find I do not have a great deal more left to give.

This circle of hate is hardly broken, sir, but forged instead in iron by what’s done today.

I think it’s quite difficult to understand what kind of life a writer leads. They might be millionaires, or they might be starving people.

There is certainly a satisfaction and dignity to be gained in coming to terms with the mistakes one has made in the course of one’s life.