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 Read Quote
The very best way I can make any reader believe in the nuts and bolts of an art form… is to know the mechanics, to make the characters grounded in convincing detail. Guy Gavriel Kay Read Quote
When I am reading for research and making notes, I use a cleverly designed curved lap-desk, and I sit up dutifully, mindful of ergonomics and suchlike concepts. When reading for pleasure, I take advantage of the ‘recline’ in recliner. Guy Gavriel Kay Read Quote
I don’t know a writer who doesn’t feel some sense of glamour and magic and a complex, wistful sadness emanating from the expats of the twenties in France. Some of the sadness, of course, is that we weren’t there. Guy Gavriel Kay Read Quote
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. Guy Gavriel Kay Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I’ve spent my whole literary career blurring boundaries between genres and categories. Guy Gavriel Kay Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Significant consequences can begin very inconsequentially. That’s one thing that fascinates me. The other thing that fascinates me is how accident can undermine something that’s unfolding, something that might have played out differently otherwise. Guy Gavriel Kay Read Quote