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Guy Gavriel Kay

It’s worth being suspicious of writers – or anyone! – who does that myth-making thing. There’s always a tendency to retrospectively impose structures on a life. Life as it’s lived has a far more complex shape.

– Guy Gavriel Kay

Guy Gavriel Kay

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

– Guy Gavriel Kay

Guy Gavriel Kay

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

– Guy Gavriel Kay

Guy Gavriel Kay

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.

– Guy Gavriel Kay

Guy Gavriel Kay

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

– Guy Gavriel Kay

Guy Gavriel Kay

I spent many years writing and directing in radio drama, so I am comfortable with an audience or a microphone, but I do worry about the blurring of an author’s public persona with the work itself. A good ‘performer’ can make a mediocre book sound strong, and a shy author can leave listeners missing the excellence of his or her writing.

– Guy Gavriel Kay

Guy Gavriel Kay

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.

– Guy Gavriel Kay

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.

– Guy Gavriel Kay

Guy Gavriel Kay

Do we value privacy in any real way? Thinking about blogs, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace… all these suggest we value exposure rather more. And instead of challenging this transformation, as they are supposed to – certainly at the more thoughtful edges of the art – novelists are buying into it wholesale.

– Guy Gavriel Kay

Guy Gavriel Kay

I’ve spent my whole literary career blurring boundaries between genres and categories.

– Guy Gavriel Kay

Guy Gavriel Kay

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.

– Guy Gavriel Kay

Guy Gavriel Kay

I want readers turning pages until three o’clock in the morning. I want the themes of books to stick around for a reader. I’m always trying to find a way to balance characters and theme.

– Guy Gavriel Kay

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