I never talk about books in progress. I could decide to change it to a series of seafood recipes, after all. — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
I grew up in a bookish family, so I read very widely. I was omnivorous, really. — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
Fantasy is more than an escape from the truths of the world and the past: it is an open acknowledgment that those… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
In general, the main themes emerge early for each book, even before the storyline and characters, as I research the time and… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people. — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
I spent many years writing and directing in radio drama, so I am comfortable with an audience or a microphone, but I… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
My youngest brother had a wonderful schtick from some time in high school, through to graduating medicine. He had a card in… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
As many have noted, the peril for authors is that our work space is too easily our play space. — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
I never answer, because I can't, which is my favorite among my own books. — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
I want readers turning pages until three o'clock in the morning. I want the themes of books to stick around for a… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
Lazy poets try to elicit a reader's response with words designed to tug at the heart. — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
The poems were the only thing I wrote that was not for everyone else. Then my editors at Penguin, who were also… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
The very best way I can make any reader believe in the nuts and bolts of an art form... is to know… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
I don't plan ahead; each book finds me. History itself, the resonance of the past with the present, is the common denominator… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
“For all his frustrations and his chronic sense of being overburdened. He was proud of that; he’d always felt that it was worth doing… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
“Branching paths. The turning of days and seasons and years. Life offered you love sometimes, sorrow often. If you were very fortunate, true friendship.… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
I never talk about books in progress. I could decide to change it to a series of seafood recipes, after all. — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
“It had taken skill, tact, an ability to choose friends well, and a great deal of luck” — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
“He sang one whole verse directly to her, then, in fidelity to the song, he sent his vision inward to where his purest music… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
“Ambitions and dreams put you at a drinking table with unexpected companions. Cups were filled and refilled, making you drunk with the illusion of… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
“We regard our own memories as truths, when they are often just the stories we have told ourselves over time. They become the truth… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
“[We let] the universality of fantasy, of once upon a time, allow escapist fiction to be more than just that - to also bring… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
“Battles are won en route, Shalhassan of Cathal though. A worthy thought: he raised his hand in a certain way, and a moment later… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
