Guy Gavriel Kay Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Everything you have ever heard about the strangeness of Hollywood is true!”

“I don't plan ahead; each book finds me. History itself, the resonance of the past with the present, is the common denominator in all of them.”

“I grew up in a bookish family, so I read very widely. I was omnivorous, really.”

“I never answer, because I can't, which is my favorite among my own books.”

“I never talk about books in progress. I could decide to change it to a series of seafood recipes, after all.”

“I ruefully admit that if the cat is asleep in my chair - which she regards as hers, of course - I tend to leave her there and take the other one.”

“I say 'as it were' or 'so to speak' too often because puns and double entendres keep insinuating themselves into my consciousness as I'm talking.”

“I've spent my whole literary career blurring boundaries between genres and categories.”

“There's a level at which, if you take poetry seriously, the focus it involves... that never goes away.”

“Fantasy is more than an escape from the truths of the world and the past: it is an open acknowledgment that those truths are complex and morally difficult. It offers a different route to creating something which will resonate with readers, in a way which resists the erasure of privacy and autonomy which pervades our modern world.”