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
real knowing tree
It was different, though, knowing something in your thoughts and then hearing it confirmed, made real, planted in the world like a tree
interesting people novel
I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people.
heart wish knows
Do you know the wish of your heart?" - The Darkest Road
player chinese world
Liu Fang is a truly gifted, world-famous player of the pipa and the guzheng, classical Chinese stringed instruments.
running fate lines
What mortal knew the way their fate line would run?
hands fists made
A hand fought best when it made a fist.
growing-up real eye
We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I dont think theres any doubt that coming of age in Winnipeg both opened my eyes and made me hungry - if I can subvert all claims to be a real writer by mixing metaphors like that.
space play peril
As many have noted, the peril for authors is that our work space is too easily our play space.
poison world cups
The world could bring you poison in a jewelled cup, or surprising gifts. Sometimes you didn't know which of them it was.
letting-go falling-in-love sadness
There was some sadness in how that could happen, Tai thought: falling out of love with something that had shaped you. Or even people who had? But if you didn't change at least a little, where were the passages of a life? Didn't learning, changing, sometimes mean letting go of what had once been seen as true?
ice
Ice is for death and endings.
running way stories
How we remember changes how we have lived. Time runs both ways. We make stories of our lives.
pain phones bitter
Dave hung up. And unplugged the phone. With a fierce and bitter pain he stared at it, watching how, over and over again, it didn't ring.
sometimes conclusion
Sometimes you didn't really arrive at a conclusion about your life, you just discovered that you already had.