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How to write like Kazuo Ishiguro

4 writing lessons from the full-stack developer of time, space and artificial intelligence

Anton Kutselyk
6 min readJan 9, 2023
The image was created by Serhiy Volosianyi

Kazuo Ishiguro is a great companion for any season. I spent many lovely evenings lying in bed with him…his books. The ardent summer dusk with crickets singing their alien cricket songs outside. The cold winter night with a howling storm storming my flat/fortress. The rainy day of autumn. The blossoming morning of spring.

I like how Ishiguro writes.
I like how he writes about human life in little yet meaningful moments.
I like how he writes to create a unique and real human experience, and not just emulate a close lookalike.
I like how his writing is, by and large, a journey to understand what it means to be a human being.

Yes, Kazuo Ishiguro, your writing is so good that many of us want to learn how to write like Kazuo Ishiguro.

Hence — to satisfy the need of aspiring writers — I‘ll try to unbury the secrets of your literary giant.

Okay

How to write like Kazuo Ishiguro?

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Anton Kutselyk
Anton Kutselyk

Written by Anton Kutselyk

I live in Kyiv and write about local culture, life, war and signs of inevitable peace.

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