Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes about Childhood

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Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Childhood, Adults, Frozen

I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the field and gradually get larger until I'd see it was Tommy, and he'd wave, and maybe even call.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Eye, Long, Childhood

Kazuo Ishiguro (2009). “Never Let Me Go”, p.263, Faber & Faber

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 - the England of my childhood has actually disappeared.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Childhood, Way, England

"I Remain Fascinated by Memory". Interview with Michael Scott Moore and Michael Sontheimer, www.spiegel.de. October 5, 2005.

What he wanted was not just to hear about Hailsham, but to remember Hailsham, just like it had been his own childhood. He knew he was close to completing and so that's what he was doing: getting me to describe things to him, so they'd really sink in, so that maybe during those sleepless nights, with the drugs and the paint and the exhaustion, the line would blur between what were my memories and what were his.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Memories, Night, Childhood

Kazuo Ishiguro (2009). “Never Let Me Go”, p.5, Faber & Faber

Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes about Childhood

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