Top 60 Quotes by Kazuo Ishiguro

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

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.

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.

If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them.

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

The book was at a reasonably high position on the New York Times... before I was in the country. I thought it would be an interesting experiment to see if my presence here would push it up or down.

People were incredibly kind to our family and went out of their way to help.

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.

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.