Guy Gavriel Kay
Author
1954-11-07
Quotes by Guy Gavriel Kay
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Reading is a collaboration between the writer and reader. Both parties must keep that in mind when dealing with a work of fiction.—{Guy Gavriel Kay}
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You have no idea how dearly I wish you were of my blood. My daughter, granddaughter. Will you allow me to take pride in what you are?-- Sandre to Catriana
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[We let] the universality of fantasy, of once upon a time, allow escapist fiction to be more than just that - to also bring us home.
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Bright star of Eanna, forgive me the manner of this, but you are the harbor of my soul's journeying.
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He sang one whole verse directly to her, then, in fidelity to the song, he sent his vision inward to where his purest music was always found, and he looked at no one at all as he sang to Eanna herself, a hymn to names and the naming of things.
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Eyyia? said her husband, and Eliane bet Danel heard the mangling of her name as music.You sound like a marsh frog, she said, moving to stand before his chair.By the flickering light she saw him smile.Where have you been, she asked. My dear. I've needed you so much.Eyyia, he tried again, and stood up. His eyes were black hollows. They would always be hollows.He opened his arms and she moved into the space they made in the world, and laying her head against his chest she permitted herself the almost unimaginable luxury of grief.
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He had a sense— honed by experience— that what he'd contrived might achieve something of the effect he wanted. That, Martinius had always said, was the best any man in this fallible world could expect. [p. 67]
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If this is truly the time that will decide, we have no business refusing people who feel the way we do. No right to decide that they must huddle in their homes waiting to see if they are still slaves or not when the summer ends.
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He sang one whole verse directly to her, then, in fidelity to the song, he sent his vision inward to where his purest music was always found, and he looked at no one at all as he sang to Eanna herself, a hymn to names and the naming of things.
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[We let] the universality of fantasy, of once upon a time, allow escapist fiction to be more than just that - to also bring us home.
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You have no idea how dearly I wish you were of my blood. My daughter, granddaughter. Will you allow me to take pride in what you are?-- Sandre to Catriana
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If this is truly the time that will decide, we have no business refusing people who feel the way we do. No right to decide that they must huddle in their homes waiting to see if they are still slaves or not when the summer ends.
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Eyyia? said her husband, and Eliane bet Danel heard the mangling of her name as music.You sound like a marsh frog, she said, moving to stand before his chair.By the flickering light she saw him smile.Where have you been, she asked. My dear. I've needed you so much.Eyyia, he tried again, and stood up. His eyes were black hollows. They would always be hollows.He opened his arms and she moved into the space they made in the world, and laying her head against his chest she permitted herself the almost unimaginable luxury of grief.
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Bright star of Eanna, forgive me the manner of this, but you are the harbor of my soul's journeying.
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He had a sense— honed by experience— that what he'd contrived might achieve something of the effect he wanted. That, Martinius had always said, was the best any man in this fallible world could expect. [p. 67]
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Reading is a collaboration between the writer and reader. Both parties must keep that in mind when dealing with a work of fiction.—{Guy Gavriel Kay}
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Everything you have ever heard about the strangeness of Hollywood is true!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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