Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes about Memories

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I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are there. In the end, as a writer, I'm more interested in what

I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are there. In the end, as a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Memories, Opportunity, Self

"In the Land of Memory" by Adam Dunn, edition.cnn.com. October 27, 2000.

Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Memories, Fading, Never Let Me Go

FaceBook post by Kazuo Ishiguro from Apr 30, 2014

Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Memories, Remember, Realizing

Kazuo Ishiguro (1982). “A Pale View of Hills”, Thorndike Press

Typically in my novels the narrator tells a story by remembering, and the memories are colored by this and colored by that. So the whole universe of the novel tends to be framed by the narrator's memories and thoughts.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Memories, Remember, Framed

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Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Memories, Writing, Texture

"Kazuo Ishiguro remembers when". Interview with Adam Dunn, www.cnn.com. October 27, 2000.

I try to always go for something... very interior, following thoughts and memories, something that I think is difficult to do on the screen, which is essentially a third-person medium.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Memories, Thinking, Trying

I like the fact that by mimicking the way memory works, a writer can actually write in a fluid way - one solid scene doesn't have to fall on another solid scene, you can just have a fragment that then dovetails into another one that took place 30 years apart from it.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Memories, Fall, Writing

"Kazuo Ishiguro remembers when" by Adam Dunn, www.cnn.com.

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 Memories

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