Dystopian Author Quotes

Kazuo Ishiguro My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and […]

Kazuo Ishiguro If you go to Tokyo, I think it becomes very obvious that there’s this almost seamless mixture of popular culture and Japanese traditional culture.

Kazuo Ishiguro I think it’s quite difficult to understand what kind of life a writer leads. They might be millionaires, or they might be starving people.

Kazuo Ishiguro I grew up in Britain before it became a multicultural place, so in many ways I have a nostalgia for an England that’s vanished […]

Kazuo Ishiguro There was surely nothing to indicate at the time that such evidently small incidents would render whole dreams forever irredeemable.

Kazuo Ishiguro 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 […]

Kazuo Ishiguro And I’m a Hailsham student – which is enough by itself sometimes to get people’s backs up.

Kazuo Ishiguro To see the best before I have properly begun would be somewhat premature.

Kazuo Ishiguro I like novelists who can create other interesting worlds.