Guy Gavriel Kay Quotes & Sayings

“When I was 18 years old, in a more innocent time, my first backpacking trip through Europe, I sneaked into the Temple of Saturn in the Roman Forum after nightfall and spent several hours in there avoiding the guards patrolling.”

“I'm still proud of the 'Fionavar Tapestry.' The fact I don't write the same way is as much as anything else the fact a man in his 50s doesn't write the way a man in his 20s does - or he shouldn't.”

“We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I don't think there's any doubt that coming of age in Winnipeg both opened my eyes and made me hungry - if I can subvert all claims to be a real writer by mixing metaphors like that.”

“Writing is never, ever easy but I wake up every morning grateful for the gift of being able to do this.”

“Even if we remember the past, odds are good we'll still repeat it.”

“I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people.”

“The poems were the only thing I wrote that was not for everyone else. Then my editors at Penguin, who were also friends and had seen several of them, aggressively urged me to do a book. Editors can be aggressive, especially after drinks. That's how 'Beyond This Dark House' appeared.”

“Liu Fang is a truly gifted, world-famous player of the pipa and the guzheng, classical Chinese stringed instruments.”

“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.”

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