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 Read Quote
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. Guy Gavriel Kay Read Quote
As many have noted, the peril for authors is that our work space is too easily our play space. Guy Gavriel Kay Read Quote
I’m still proud of the ‘Fionavar Tapestry.’ The fact I don’t write the same way is as much as anything else the fact a man in his 50s doesn’t write the way a man in his 20s does – or he shouldn’t. Guy Gavriel Kay Read Quote
I had been obsessed with the Arthurian legends all my life, and I knew that that would work its way into any trilogy I wrote. I was fascinated by the Eddas, the Norse and Icelandic legends, Odin on the world tree. Guy Gavriel Kay Read Quote
Writing is never, ever easy but I wake up every morning grateful for the gift of being able to do this. Guy Gavriel Kay Read Quote
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. Guy Gavriel Kay Read Quote
In general, the main themes emerge early for each book, even before the storyline and characters, as I research the time and place I want to draw upon. Having said that, every single book so far has offered me surprises en route, and these include motifs that come forward as I am writing. Guy Gavriel Kay Read Quote
Liu Fang is a truly gifted, world-famous player of the pipa and the guzheng, classical Chinese stringed instruments. Guy Gavriel Kay Read Quote
