Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Kazuo Ishiguro (British Novelist)

Sir Kazuo Ishiguro (b.1954) is a Japanese-born British writer of haunting, elegiac novels. This winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature is recognized for his lyrical tales of regret fused with subtle optimism.

Born in Nagasaki, Japan, Ishiguro settled in England when he was five. He came to notice as a student of a creative writing course at the University of East Anglia. After working as a community worker in Glasgow in the late 1970s, he published the delicate A Pale View of Hill (1982,) which represented a highly personal approach to modern Japanese history and society.

Ishiguro’s An Artist of the Floating World (1988) was much more mannered, as was The Remains of the Day (1989,) which shifted England’s setting for the first time. This elegiac study of a vanishing class, told through a butler’s eyes, won the Booker Prize. It was made into an award-winning film (1993) starring Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins.

When We Were Orphans (2000) is set in Shanghai, and Never Let Me Go (2005) explores human cloning ethics. The Buried Giant (2015) is an existential fantasy tale inflected by Arthurian legend.

Ishiguro also wrote the short-story collection Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall (2009.) He wrote screenplays for British television and the feature films The Saddest Music in the World (2003) and The White Countess (2005.)

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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 see them ever fading.
Kazuo Ishiguro

Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers, and no doubt this applies to certain of the recollections I have gathered here.
Kazuo Ishiguro

After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?
Kazuo Ishiguro

Perhaps there are those who are able to go about their lives unfettered by such concerns. But for those like us, our fate is to face the world as orphans, chasing through long years the shadows of vanished parents. There is nothing for it but to try and see through our missions to the end, as best we can, for until we do so, we will be permitted no calm.
Kazuo Ishiguro

There is certainly a satisfaction and dignity to be gained in coming to terms with the mistakes one has made in the course of one’s life
Kazuo Ishiguro

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
Kazuo Ishiguro
Topics: Leadership, Confidence

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