I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy … - Kazuo Ishiguro

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Lilith: Oh, but your heart grows cold. A north wind blows and carries down the distant. . . Rose? The Doctor: Oooh, big mistake! Because that name keeps me fighting!

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.

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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.

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