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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
  

• ‟ 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
  

• ‟ 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.

  - Kazuo Ishiguro
  

• ‟ When I see films made from books, I make a huge effort not to remember the book. It's important to see the film as a film.

  - Kazuo Ishiguro
  

• ‟ 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