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
brother book school
My youngest brother had a wonderful schtick from some time in high school, through to graduating medicine. He had a card in his wallet that read, ‘If I am found with amnesia, please give me the following books to read …’ And it listed half a dozen books where he longed to recapture that first glorious sense of needing to find out ‘what happens next’ … the feeling that keeps you up half the night. The feeling that comes before the plot’s been learned.
journey destiny hiking
There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.
heart owners captives
She was owner and captive, both, of a bitterly divided heart.
despair matter gates
We salvage what we can, what truly matters to us, even at the gates of despair.
self impact needs
A hard truth: that courage can be without meaning or impact, need not be rewarded, or even known. The world has not been made in that way. Perhaps, however, within the self there might come a resonance, the awareness of having done something difficult, of having done . . . something.
morning grateful writing
Writing is never, ever easy but I wake up every morning grateful for the gift of being able to do this.
night dragons rivers
Some writers later, describing the events of that night and day, wrote that Wan'yen of the Altai had seen a spirit-dragon of the river and become afraid. Writers do that sort of thing. They like dragons in their tales.
book writing trying
After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.
longing
We are the total of our longings.
mean ifs
But if you couldn't do everything, did that mean you did nothing?
real knowing tree
It was different, though, knowing something in your thoughts and then hearing it confirmed, made real, planted in the world like a tree
falling-in-love sadness people
There was some sadness in how that could happen, falling out of love with something that had shaped you. Or even people who had.
heart lazy trying
Lazy poets try to elicit a reader's response with words designed to tug at the heart.
islands world another-world
... everyone knew that all islands were worlds unto themselves, that to come to an island was to come to another world.