Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro OBE, FRSA, FRSLis a British novelist, screenwriter and short story writer. He was born in Nagasaki, Japan; his family moved to England in 1960 when he was five. Ishiguro obtained his bachelor's degree from the University of Kent in 1978 and his Master's from the University of East Anglia's creative-writing course in 1980...
NationalityJapanese
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth8 November 1954
CountryJapan
mistake dignity made
I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that?
life mistake moving
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.
artist capture concern
An artist's concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.
life running never-let-me-go
Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.
loving-someone might bigger
She might be a great person, but life's so much bigger than just loving someone.
doubt height impression
If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.
ambition men trying
A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he fails and loses a fortune on account of his ambitions (...) if one has failed only where others have not had the courage or will to try, there is consolation - indeed, deep satisfaction - to be gained from his observation when looking back over one's life. #Page no.134
mistake satisfaction dignity
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
math giving brain
It was like being given a maths problem when your brain's exhausted, and you know there's some far-off solution, but you can't work up the energy even to give it a go. Something in me just gave up.
judging challenges development
Its was one of those events which at a crucial stage in one's development arrive to challenge and stretch one to the limit of one's ability and beyond, so that thereafter one has a new standard by which to judge oneself.
nice lying book
If I'm alone at home, I get increasingly restless, bothered by the idea that I'm missing some crucial encounter out there somewhere. But if I'm left by myself in someone else's place, I often find myself a nice sense of peace engulfing me. I love sinking into an unfamiliar sofa with whatever book happens to be lying nearby.
events
One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.
father men wife
When a man induces his wife to turn suspicious thoughts against her own father, then that is surely cause enough for resentment.
retirement hard-work achievement
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.