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More Quotes by Kazuo Ishiguro
As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.
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.
I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that?
All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.
Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?
You say you’re sure? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple?
After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?
There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.
It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.
