Guy Gavriel Kay Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“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.”
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“There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.”
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“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.”
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“As many have noted, the peril for authors is that our work space is too easily our play space.”
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“Writing is never, ever easy but I wake up every morning grateful for the gift of being able to do this.”
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“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.”
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“It was different, though, knowing something in your thoughts and then hearing it confirmed, made real, planted in the world like a tree”
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“I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people.”
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“Eanna love us, Adaon preserve us, Morian guard our souls.”
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“There was some sadness in how that could happen, falling out of love with something that had shaped you. Or even people who had.”
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“We must be what we are, or we become our enemies.”
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“But if you couldn't do everything, did that mean you did nothing?”
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“Fantasy is, at its best, the purest access to storytelling that we have. It universalizes a tale, it evokes wonder and timeless narrative power, it touches upon inner journeys, it illuminates our collective and individual pasts, throws a focus beam on the present day, and presages the dangers and promises of the future.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Lazy poets try to elicit a reader's response with words designed to tug at the heart.”
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“You'd never killed anyone. Then you had.”
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“One didn't stop to talk with creatures from one's nightmares.”
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“We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I dont think theres 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.”
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“A hand fought best when it made a fist.”
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“What mortal knew the way their fate line would run?”
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“Liu Fang is a truly gifted, world-famous player of the pipa and the guzheng, classical Chinese stringed instruments.”
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“It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.”
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“When I'm all grown up, come what may, I'll build a boat to carry me away”
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“most hated by the dark, for their name is light.”
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“There are kinds of action, for good or ill, that lie so far outside the boundaries of normal behavior that they force us, in acknowledging that they have occurred, to restructure our own understanding of reality. We have to make room for them.”
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“She was owner and captive, both, of a bitterly divided heart.”
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“Do you know the wish of your heart?" - The Darkest Road”
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