Guy Gavriel Kay
Guy Gavriel Kay
Guy Gavriel Kay CMis a Canadian writer of fantasy fiction. Many of his novels are set in fictional realms that resemble real places during real historical periods, such as Constantinople during the reign of Justinian I or Spain during the time of El Cid. Those works are published and marketed as historical fantasy, although Kay has expressed a preference to avoid genre categorization...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth7 November 1954
CountryCanada
You'd never killed anyone. Then you had.
book writing fiction
It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.
men irritation response
Irritation for some men was their response to strain.
book writing trying
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.
children blessed men
One man sees a riselka: his life forks there. Two men see a riselka: one of them shall die. Three men see a riselka: one is blessed, one forks, one shall die. One woman sees a riselka: her path comes clear to her. Two women see a riselka: one of them shall bear a child. Three women see a riselka: one is blessed, one is clear, one shall bear a child.
children knowing soul
We worship…the powers that speak to our souls, if it seems they do. We do so knowing there is more to the world, and the half-world, and perhaps worlds beyond, than we can grasp. We always knew that. We can’t even stop children from dying, how would we presume to understand the truth of things? Behind things? Does the presence of one power deny another? [p. 176]
kings woods blame
Unless the perfidious wolves have the temerity to disobey the High King's plans, we should meet Shalhassan's forces by the Latham in mid-wood with the wolves between us. If they aren't,' Diarmuid concluded, 'we blame anyone and everything except the plan.
thinking compassion world
In this world, where we find ourselves, we need compassion more than anything, I think, or we are all alone.
men moon deeds
The deeds of men, as footprints in the desert. Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last. Even the sun goes down.
heart law truth-is
The heart has its own laws... and the truth is... the truth is that you are the law of mine.
dark names light
most hated by the dark, for their name is light.
bridges shapes longing
Words were power, words tried to change you, to shape bridges of longing that no one could ever really cross.
night dragons rivers
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.
islands world another-world
... everyone knew that all islands were worlds unto themselves, that to come to an island was to come to another world.