Writer Quotes by Guy Gavriel Kay

8 Writer quotes by Guy Gavriel Kay

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Guy Gavriel Kay’s eight reflections on writing blend mythic imagination with meticulous world‑building. This compact collection gives a brief look at his approach to crafting epic narratives.

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I grew up in a bookish family, so I read very widely. I was omnivorous, really.

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In general, the main themes emerge early for each book, even before the storyline and characters, as I research the time and…

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I spent many years writing and directing in radio drama, so I am comfortable with an audience or a microphone, but I…

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It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from…

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We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I don't think there's any doubt that…

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As many have noted, the peril for authors is that our work space is too easily our play space.

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I want readers turning pages until three o'clock in the morning. I want the themes of books to stick around for a…

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I don't know a writer who doesn't feel some sense of glamour and magic and a complex, wistful sadness emanating from the…

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“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…

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“Branching paths. The turning of days and seasons and years. Life offered you love sometimes, sorrow often. If you were very fortunate, true friendship.…

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I never talk about books in progress. I could decide to change it to a series of seafood recipes, after all.

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“He’d stopped permitting himself to be unhappy about it.”

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“The privacy of pride.”

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“It had taken skill, tact, an ability to choose friends well, and a great deal of luck”

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“The soul must bend to endure.”

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“He sang one whole verse directly to her, then, in fidelity to the song, he sent his vision inward to where his purest music…

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“Ambitions and dreams put you at a drinking table with unexpected companions. Cups were filled and refilled, making you drunk with the illusion of…

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“We regard our own memories as truths, when they are often just the stories we have told ourselves over time. They become the truth…

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“[We let] the universality of fantasy, of once upon a time, allow escapist fiction to be more than just that - to also bring…

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“Battles are won en route, Shalhassan of Cathal though. A worthy thought: he raised his hand in a certain way, and a moment later…

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After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book…

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“Daylight was coming outside, but it was not only that: courage cast its own light.”

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“But when a place has been an island the memory of water lingers, and of water magic, no matter how far away the sea…

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