Guy Gavriel Kay
Guy Gavriel Kay
Guy Gavriel Kay CMis a Canadian writer of fantasy fiction. Many of his novels are set in fictional realms that resemble real places during real historical periods, such as Constantinople during the reign of Justinian I or Spain during the time of El Cid. Those works are published and marketed as historical fantasy, although Kay has expressed a preference to avoid genre categorization...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth7 November 1954
CountryCanada
pain phones bitter
Dave hung up. And unplugged the phone. With a fierce and bitter pain he stared at it, watching how, over and over again, it didn't ring.
dark names light
most hated by the dark, for their name is light.
heart law truth-is
The heart has its own laws... and the truth is... the truth is that you are the law of mine.
sometimes conclusion
Sometimes you didn't really arrive at a conclusion about your life, you just discovered that you already had.
military roles understood
The military preferred - invariably - those who could be readily defined, assigned roles, understood, and controlled.
bravery
You have to be afraid for it to count as bravery.
war sometimes ends
Weariness, sometimes more than anything else, can bring an end to war.
long looks world
It is always difficult, even with the best will in the world, to look back a long way and see anything resembling the truth.
space play peril
As many have noted, the peril for authors is that our work space is too easily our play space.
book writing fiction
It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.
nightmare creatures
One didn't stop to talk with creatures from one's nightmares.
player chinese world
Liu Fang is a truly gifted, world-famous player of the pipa and the guzheng, classical Chinese stringed instruments.
running fate lines
What mortal knew the way their fate line would run?
hands fists made
A hand fought best when it made a fist.