Dystopian Author Quotes

Kazuo Ishiguro I started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I’ve always seen my stories as enlarged songs.

Kazuo Ishiguro Screenplays I didn’t really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to […]

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

Kazuo Ishiguro I loved cowboy films and TV series, and I learned bits of English from them. My favorite was ‘Laramie’, with Robert Fuller and John […]

Philip Roth A life of writing books is a trying adventure in which you cannot find out where you are unless you lose your way.

Philip Roth Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.

Philip Roth What I have in mind when I start to write could fit inside an acorn-an acorn, moreover, that rarely if ever grows into an […]

Philip Roth To read a novel requires a certain kind of concentration, focus, devotion to the reading. If you read a novel in more than two […]

Philip Roth I turn sentences around. That’s my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and turn […]