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Guy Gavriel Kay

Guy Gavriel Kay CM (born November 7, 1954) is 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.

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most hated by the dark, for their name is light.

Dark, Hated, Light, Name, Names

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

Argued, Interesting, Novel, People

Do you know the wish of your heart?" - The Darkest Road

Heart, Know, Knows, Road, Wish

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?

Change, Falling In Love, Letting Go, Sadness, Shaped, Tai

After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.

Book, Read, Trying, Write, Writing

My youngest brother had a wonderful schtick from some time in high school, through to graduating medicine. He had a card in his wallet that read, ‘If I am found with amnesia, please give me the following books to read …’ And it listed half a dozen books where he longed to recapture that first glorious sense of needing to find out ‘what happens next’ … the feeling that keeps you up half the night. The feeling that comes before the plot’s been learned.

Book, Brother, Feeling, Medicine, Recapture, School

One man sees a riselka: his life forks there. Two men see a riselka: one of them shall die. Three men see a riselka: one is blessed, one forks, one shall die.

Blessed, Die, Men, Sees, Three, Two

Writing is never, ever easy but I wake up every morning grateful for the gift of being able to do this.

Easy, Gift, Grateful, Morning, Writing

The military preferred - invariably - those who could be readily defined, assigned roles, understood, and controlled.

Assigned, Military, Readily, Roles, Understood

Some writers later, describing the events of that night and day, wrote that Wan'yen of the Altai had seen a spirit-dragon of the river and become afraid. Writers do that sort of thing. They like dragons in their tales.

Become, Dragons, Night, Rivers, Tales, Thing

The deeds of men, as footprints in the desert. Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last. Even the sun goes down.

Deeds, Desert, Down, Men, Moon

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.

Claims, Eye, Eyes, Growing Up, Real, Subvert

Unless the perfidious wolves have the temerity to disobey the High King's plans, we should meet Shalhassan's forces by the Latham in mid-wood with the wolves between us. If they aren't,' Diarmuid concluded, 'we blame anyone and everything except the plan.

Blame, Kings, Meet, Perfidious, Plans, Woods

How we remember changes how we have lived. Time runs both ways. We make stories of our lives.

Changes, Lives, Running, Runs, Stories, Way

You have to be afraid for it to count as bravery.

Afraid, Bravery, Count

We worship…the powers that speak to our souls, if it seems they do. We do so knowing there is more to the world, and the half-world, and perhaps worlds beyond, than we can grasp. We always knew that. We can’t even stop children from dying, how would we presume to understand the truth of things? Behind things? Does the presence of one power deny another? [p. 176]

Children, Deny, Grasp, Knowing, Soul, World

By things so achingly small are lives measured and marred.

Achingly, Lives, Marred, Measured, Small, Things

Irritation for some men was their response to strain.

Irritation, Men, Response, Strain

One didn't stop to talk with creatures from one's nightmares.

Creatures, Nightmare, Nightmares, Stop, Talk

Weariness, sometimes more than anything else, can bring an end to war.

Bring, Ends, Sometimes, War, Weariness

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