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 bookenjoyread Change image and share on social
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 acknowledgeclaimdegree share on social
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 aggressiveaggressivelyappear share on social