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Guy Gavriel Kay
Canadian
Author
Born:
Nov 7
,
1954
Book
Me
Past
Work
World
Writing
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When I was 18 years old, in a more innocent time, my first backpacking trip through Europe, I sneaked into the Temple of Saturn in the Roman Forum after nightfall and spent several hours in there avoiding the guards patrolling.
Guy Gavriel Kay
Time
Old
Innocent
First
Guards
Several
Spent
Temple
Trip
More
Through
Hours
Years
Roman
After
Avoiding
Forum
Europe
Saturn
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.
Guy Gavriel Kay
Take Advantage
Reading
Sit
Research
Mindful
Pleasure
Take
Advantage
Concepts
Making
Am
Up
Notes
Use
Designed
Writing is never, ever easy but I wake up every morning grateful for the gift of being able to do this.
Guy Gavriel Kay
Morning
Grateful
Writing
Gift
Wake Up
Every
Easy
Able
Never
Wake
Up
Being
Ever
I'm happier not pretending I know anything about El Cid in Spain. He's a Spanish national hero. I'd rather invent a character inspired by him but clearly not identical to him. And then I feel liberated creatively.
Guy Gavriel Kay
Character
Hero
Pretending
Invent
National
Liberated
About
Rather
Inspired
He
Feel
Clearly
Know
Identical
Him
Anything
Happier
Spain
Spanish
Then
Creatively
Liu Fang is a truly gifted, world-famous player of the pipa and the guzheng, classical Chinese stringed instruments.
Guy Gavriel Kay
Gifted
Classical
Instruments
Truly
Fang
Chinese
Player
I'm still proud of the 'Fionavar Tapestry.' The fact I don't write the same way is as much as anything else the fact a man in his 50s doesn't write the way a man in his 20s does - or he shouldn't.
Guy Gavriel Kay
Man
Else
Way
Fact
Write
He
Does
Proud
Still
His
Tapestry
Same
Anything
Anything Else
Much
I never answer, because I can't, which is my favorite among my own books.
Guy Gavriel Kay
Own
Books
Favorite
My Own
Never
Because
Answer
Which
Among
Even if we remember the past, odds are good we'll still repeat it.
Guy Gavriel Kay
Good
Remember
Odds
Past
Still
Repeat
Even
In general, the main themes emerge early for each book, even before the storyline and characters, as I research the time and place I want to draw upon. Having said that, every single book so far has offered me surprises en route, and these include motifs that come forward as I am writing.
Guy Gavriel Kay
Time
Me
Book
Writing
Single
Before
Research
Every
Draw
Characters
Emerge
General
Having
Main
Come
Said
Am
Surprises
Offered
Want
Place
Storyline
Far
Themes
Forward
Even
Include
Each
Route
Early
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
Me
Accident
Consequences
Other
Otherwise
Out
Significant
One Thing
Something
Undermine
How
Very
Begin
Unfolding
Might
Fascinates
Differently
Thing
Played
I don't know a writer who doesn't feel some sense of glamour and magic and a complex, wistful sadness emanating from the expats of the twenties in France. Some of the sadness, of course, is that we weren't there.
Guy Gavriel Kay
Sadness
Sense
France
Complex
Some
Magic
Writer
Glamour
Feel
Know
Course
Were
Who
Twenties
I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people.
Guy Gavriel Kay
Good
People
Argued
Always
Happen
Interesting
Interesting People
Interesting Things
Novel
Things
Things Happen
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
Privacy
World
Resonate
Will
Past
Difficult
Our
Way
Complex
Those
Morally
Something
More
Open
Readers
Escape
Than
Offers
Truths
Modern
Different
Which
Autonomy
Acknowledgment
Modern World
Fantasy
Creating
Route
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
Me
Book
Dark
Seen
Aggressive
Else
Everyone
Everyone Else
Several
Penguin
Poems
Only
Drinks
Had
Beyond
House
Also
Wrote
How
Editors
Were
Friends
The Only Thing
After
Urged
Them
Then
Who
Appeared
Thing
There's a level at which, if you take poetry seriously, the focus it involves... that never goes away.
Guy Gavriel Kay
You
Seriously
Focus
Poetry
Take
Never
Involves
Goes
Which
Away
Level
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
Me
History
Book
Past
Resonance
Finds
Denominator
Itself
Common
Common Denominator
Them
Plan
Each
Present
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