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Guy Gavriel Kay Quotes

Canadian - Author | November 7, 1954 -

I say 'as it were' or 'so to speak' too often because puns and double entendres keep insinuating themselves into my consciousness as I'm talking.

Guy Gavriel Kay

Speak Talking Say Double Keep Puns

I never answer, because I can't, which is my favorite among my own books.

Guy Gavriel Kay

My Own Never Own Answer Because

Everything you have ever heard about the strangeness of Hollywood is true!

Guy Gavriel Kay

You True Hollywood Everything About

Even if we remember the past, odds are good we'll still repeat it.

Guy Gavriel Kay

Good Past Remember Odds Repeat Even

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 Consequences Begin Out Something

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

I Am Research Reading Take Advantage

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 Feel Magic Know Glamour

I ruefully admit that if the cat is asleep in my chair - which she regards as hers, of course - I tend to leave her there and take the other one.

Guy Gavriel Kay

Chair Admit She Leave Cat Take

I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people.

Guy Gavriel Kay

Good People Interesting Things Happen

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

Morning Balance Trying Find Three

I've spent my whole literary career blurring boundaries between genres and categories.

Guy Gavriel Kay

Career Boundaries Whole Between

Do we value privacy in any real way? Thinking about blogs, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace... all these suggest we value exposure rather more. And instead of challenging this transformation, as they are supposed to - certainly at the more thoughtful edges of the art - novelists are buying into it wholesale.

Guy Gavriel Kay

Art Value Transformation Thinking

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