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. Guy Gavriel Kay Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I never talk about books in progress. I could decide to change it to a series of seafood recipes, after all. Guy Gavriel Kay Read Quote
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 Read Quote
There’s a level at which, if you take poetry seriously, the focus it involves… that never goes away. Guy Gavriel Kay Read Quote
I grew up in a bookish family, so I read very widely. I was omnivorous, really. Guy Gavriel Kay Read Quote
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. Guy Gavriel Kay Read Quote
My privacy concerns have to do with the world, other people, technology intruding upon us – what Talmudic scholars once called ‘the unwanted gaze.’ Here I see major issues and concerns as society evolves, and I’ve written often on the subject. Guy Gavriel Kay Read Quote
Everything you have ever heard about the strangeness of Hollywood is true! Guy Gavriel Kay Read Quote