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

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• ‟ Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory. I like the atmospheres that result if episodes are narrated through the haze of memory.

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• ‟ I don't have a deep link with England like, say, Jonathan Coe or Hanif Kureishi might demonstrate. For me, it is like a mythical place.

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• ‟ I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.

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• ‟ I couldn't speak Japanese very well, passport regulations were changing, I felt British, and my future was in Britain. And it would also make me eligible for literary awards. But I still think I'm regarded as one of their own in Japan.

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• ‟ Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time, it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki.

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• ‟ My wife is the most savage critic. She doesn't feel intimidated by my reputation. As far as she's concerned, she's just criticising a boyfriend who'd recently had a go at fiction. She can tell me to abandon whole novels.

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• ‟ Even though I spent the first five years of my life in Nagasaki, going to Japan can be really difficult. Even if they know I've been brought up in the West, they still expect me to understand all the subtleties of their culture, and if I get it wrong, it matters much more than if a British person gets it wrong. I find it intimidating.

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• ‟ What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity.

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