Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

I was always writing the books that I wanted to write, books that demanded to be written at the time. But, like most writers, you start off feeling your way.

I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.

I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.

Suddenly, the idea of writing a book was like coming home. I didn't tell anyone except my wife, Clare. I just began.

Anything that feels like good characters, I am excited to do whether I write it or not. But if I don't find it in the world, I will write it myself.

Eventually, I realised that I wanted to try to create something myself, and that's what writing novels is. Not because I wanted to put myself in front of the world, but because I wanted to create something that would go out into the world.

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.

After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.

Once I finished 'Eileen,' I wanted to write more novels. I don't see myself stopping any time soon.

I remember all the way back in high school thinking about writing books. And, in fact, I've written a lot of stories. I've got dozens of stories I've written that no one's ever seen.

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.

If you think about becoming a writer, that's just really one of the big dreams I had. It's really important to have those dreams and pursue your passions.

Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something for fancier people. I aspired, but mostly I wrote for myself. I wrote because it made me happy.

I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.

Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.

I wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night, Josephine! I'd been thinking about it a long time.

Once I have the grain of an idea, it haunts me until I finish the story. I don't like to be haunted, of course, so immediately get to work.

I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.'

At Marvel, I was lucky enough to work with really talented people, but I always had this nagging thought: 'One day I'll write my own stories.'

I had no real idea I was going to become a writer. It was just a game for me. I just liked pretending, daydreaming and imagining.

You write, hoping to write a good book; that's it.

I don't think I knew I would be a writer. I wanted to become a writer, and I tried to write.

Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how to start.

If somebody gave you several thousand dollars and nothin' to do but write, would you be a writer then? Would you tell your stories, your family's stories, then?