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Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes
Page 2 of 2Kazuo Ishiguro
November 8, 1954 -
Nationality: Japanese
Category: Author
Subcategory: Japanese Author
|  My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation. | | People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different. | | I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to write something strange and difficult, that was the time. | | If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them. | | I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends. |
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