Quotes from Kazuo Ishiguro

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.

I'm always trying to make something that is impossible to film. Why would somebody just read a novel when they can see it on TV or in the cinema? I really have to think of the things fiction can do that film can't and play to the strengths of the novel. With a novel, you can get right inside somebody's head.

Why would somebody just read a novel when they can see it on TV or in the cinema? I really have to think of the things fiction can do that film can't and play to the strengths of the novel. With a novel, you can get right inside somebody's head.

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.

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.

What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.

What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.

I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that?

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.

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