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What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a lot of writers are having to face. Writers have become much more public now.
Kazuo Ishiguro
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Kazuo Ishiguro
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: November 8
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There was a time you saw me once, one afternoon, in the dormitories. There was no one else around, and I was playing this tape, this music. I was sort of dancing with my eyes closed and you saw me.' '...yes, I remember that occasion. I still think about it from time to time.' 'That's funny, so do I.
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I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the field and gradually get larger until I'd see it was Tommy, and he'd wave, and maybe even call.
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It is one of the enjoyments of retirement that you are able to drift through the day at your own pace, easy in the knowledge that you have put hard work and achievement behind you.
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I cannot start a story or chapter without knowing how it ends. ... Of course, it rarely ends that way.
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Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?
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I work very regular hours, roughly 9 to 5:30. I think I have it much easier than a lot of parents. I just sit at home, I have a very flexible timetable, and I'm very fortunate in that I don't have money problems. I have lunch with my wife at home. I don't have to commute, so I have much more time with my family.
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I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to write something strange and difficult, that was the time.
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I think jogging is bad for your health. All that pressure on the knees and back cannot be good for you.
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Love isn't about when you first meet. It's about the many, many years you spend together, when you're trying to keep that flame burning.
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The problem, as I see it, is that you've been told and not told. You've been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people are quite happy to leave it that way.
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There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.
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I try to always go for something... very interior, following thoughts and memories, something that I think is difficult to do on the screen, which is essentially a third-person medium.
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She might be a great person, but life's so much bigger than just loving someone.
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There comes a point when you can more or less count the number of books you're going to write before you die.
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I don't have a deep link with England like, say, Jonathan Coe or Hanif Kureishi might demonstrate. For me it is like a mythical place.
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As I say, I have never in all these years thought of the matter in quite this way but then it is perhaps in the nature of coming away on a trip such as this that one is prompted towards such surprising new perspectives on topics one imagined one had long ago thought throughly.
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The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.
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What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity.
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