Guy Gavriel Kay Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: November 7, 1954

Topics

LifeWorthMoreAlwaysShapeLived

The band's never taken a year off. Last August we decided to take one, and three months in I was bored to tears.

Steven Tyler

TearsYearThreeNeverBandBored

If you didn't know Fred Claire, you didn't know anyone.

Rod Carew

YouKnowFredAnyoneClaire

The contemporary authors I most admire are Nick Hornby and Jonathan Tropper.

Mike Greenberg

AdmireContemporaryMostAuthors

The book is not simply the object that one holds in one's hands, and it cannot remain within the little parallelpiped that contains it: its unity is variable and relative. As soon as one questions that unity, it loses its self-evidence; it indicates itself, constructs itself, only on the basis of a complex field of discourse.

Michel Foucault

UnityBookQuestionsHandsWithin

It's really important to create something, like with my creations as a musician. Just let it flow. Focus on how to deliver message to audience. Don't get ego.

Miyavi

FocusEgoCreateImportantFlowGet

Freedom of expression is essential for feminists and dissidents in the Muslim world.

Deeyah Khan

FreedomWorldExpressionMuslim

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

Colin Powell

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I always overwrite - really awful, long bits of script - and then I trim it down to the bare bones and then add a little bit to colour it in. At the end of all of my stories, I test for wordless comprehension. So I remove the text and see if it works by itself. And if it does, I feel that that's a successful story.

Shaun Tan

StoryEndFeelLongDownTest

There are only two companies in the world that can help me. That's Facebook and Google, because they are going to make me the largest digital network in the world, which is my goal.

Shane Smith

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Generally, I've found that a heckler in an improv audience is just enjoying the show so much that they want to be in it.

Scott Adsit

WantAudienceImprovShowJustMuch

Songs are like children in a way. They all need to find a home.

Thomas Rhett

HomeChildrenFindWayNeedSongs

I lived by the motto, 'If you don't flirt, you die.' And flirt I did. I flirted with all women, be they actresses, producers, or 80-year-old grandmothers. I even flirted with those who were out of bounds, like the wives of some of my best friends, which especially revolts me.

Richard Dreyfuss

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