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 compleximposelife share on social
Everything you have ever heard about the strangeness of Hollywood is true! Guy Gavriel Kay hearhollywoodstrangeness Change image and share on social
I never talk about books in progress. I could decide to change it to a series of seafood recipes, after all. Guy Gavriel Kay bookchangedecide Change image and share on social
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. Guy Gavriel Kay balancebookcharacter Change image and share on social
There's a level at which, if you take poetry seriously, the focus it involves... that never goes away. Guy Gavriel Kay focusinvolvelevel Change image and share on social
Significant consequences can begin very inconsequentially. That's one thing that fascinates me. The other thing that fascinates me is how accident can undermine something that's unfolding, something that might have played out differently otherwise. Guy Gavriel Kay accidentbeginconsequence share on social
Fantasy is more than an escape from the truths of the world and the past: it is an open acknowledgment that those truths are complex and morally difficult. It offers a different route to creating something which will resonate with readers, in a way which resists the erasure of privacy and autonomy which pervades our modern world. Guy Gavriel Kay acknowledgmentautonomycomplex share on social
Even if we remember the past, odds are good we'll still repeat it. Guy Gavriel Kay goododdpast Change image and share on social
I've spent my whole literary career blurring boundaries between genres and categories. Guy Gavriel Kay blurboundarycareer Change image and share on social
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 aheadbookcommon Change image and share on social