Kazuo Ishiguro

All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.

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

I do feel part of that generation of people who were rather idealistic in the '70s and became disillusioned in the '80s. Not just about social services issues, but the world.

Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.