"As many have noted, the peril for authors……" — Guy Gavriel Kay
"As many have noted, the peril for authors is that our work space is too easily our play space."
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54 Quotes by Guy Gavriel Kay
Guy Gavriel Kay has 54 quotes on this site.
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A hard truth: that courage can be without meaning or impact, need not be rewarded, or even known. The world…
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We are the total of our longings.
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Fantasy is, at its best, the purest access to storytelling that we have. It universalizes a tale, it evokes wonder…
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But if you couldn't do everything, did that mean you did nothing?
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There was some sadness in how that could happen, falling out of love with something that had shaped you. Or…
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Eanna love us, Adaon preserve us, Morian guard our souls.
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Lazy poets try to elicit a reader's response with words designed to tug at the heart.
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You'd never killed anyone. Then you had.
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It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants…
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One didn't stop to talk with creatures from one's nightmares.
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Liu Fang is a truly gifted, world-famous player of the pipa and the guzheng, classical Chinese stringed instruments.
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What mortal knew the way their fate line would run?
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More Authors Quotes
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one of 523 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to…
— Francis Bacon
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of…
— Joseph Addison
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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
— John Berger
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Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't…
— Alain de Botton
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Musicians are at the bottom of the creative pyramid and authors are at the top, and many people think it's…
— Nick Cave
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There are a lot of authors in the world, so it's difficult to find a unique niche to present your…
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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We must be authors of the history of our age.
— Madeleine Albright
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among the values of classical learning I estimate the Luxury of reading the Greek & Roman authors in all the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading…
— Joseph Addison
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Thousands of volumes have been written about aviation, but we do not automatically have thousands of true and special friends…
— Richard Bach
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The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom…
— Albert Camus
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Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author…
— Stephen Vizinczey
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