"When we work with history, to a very……" — Guy Gavriel Kay
"When we work with history, to a very great degree we are all guessing. But by using motifs of time and history in a fantasy setting, we are acknowledging that this educated guesswork, invention, fantasy underlie our treatment of the past and its peoples - and we are not claiming a right to do with them as we will."
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Guy Gavriel Kay
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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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The power of God is effective when a person asks for the help from God, acknowledging his own weakness and…
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We must speak to God as a friend speaks to his friend, servant to his master; now asking some favor,…
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It is only by acknowledging that you have created everything up until now that you can take charge of creating…
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With the influences of evil that surround our children, can we even imagine sending them out in the morning without…
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