Dystopian Author Quotes

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 […]

Kazuo Ishiguro I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases […]

Kazuo Ishiguro If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them.

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.