What he wanted was not just to hear about Hailsham, but to remember Hailsham, just like it had … - Kazuo Ishiguro

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Kazuo Ishiguro

What he wanted was not just to hear about Hailsham, but to remember Hailsham, just like it had been his own childhood. He knew he was close to completing and so that's what he was doing: getting me to describe things to him, so they'd really sink in, so that maybe during those sleepless nights, with the drugs and the paint and the exhaustion, the line would blur between what were my memories and what were his.

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But then, I suppose, when with the benefit of hindsight one begins to search one's past for such 'turning points', one is apt to start seeing them everywhere.

Begins, Benefit, Benefits, Everywhere, Hindsight, Past

I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they'd once belonged to the sea.

Gone, Pile, Sea, Think, Thinking

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

Like, Memories, Memory, Texture, Writing

Typically in my novels the narrator tells a story by remembering, and the memories are colored by this and colored by that. So the whole universe of the novel tends to be framed by the narrator's memories and thoughts.

Framed, Memories, Remember, Typically, Universe

Perhaps one day, all these conflicts will end, and it won't be because of great statesmen or churches or organisations like this one. It'll be because people have changed. They'll be like you, Puffin. More a mixture. So why not become a mongrel? It's healthy.

Church, Conflicts, Day, Healthy, Mixture, People