A Kazuo Ishiguro quote on his writing

"Maybe overall as a writer I have become less interested in realism. Partly perhaps because things like cinema and television do that kind of thing so well. When I write a novel perhaps some part of me wants to offer in a book an experience that you can't get easily sitting in front of a cinema screen or a television screen. For that reason, one of the strengths of novels, I think, over camera-based storytelling is that you are able to get right inside people's heads. You're able to explore people's inner worlds much more thoroughly and with much more subtlety. That's not to say there aren't many great filmmakers who really get you into somebody's head. But the form is different. It's a third person exterior form."

Kazuo Ishiguro, British novelist

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