As many have noted, the peril for authors is that our work space is too easily our play space. Guy Gavriel Kay More Quotes by Guy Gavriel Kay More Quotes From Guy Gavriel Kay 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 anything man proud way 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 double say speak talking I never answer, because I can't, which is my favorite among my own books. Guy Gavriel Kay answer own never my-own Even if we remember the past, odds are good we'll still repeat it. Guy Gavriel Kay good odds remember past 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 i-am me research time My privacy concerns have to do with the world, other people, technology intruding upon us - what Talmudic scholars once called 'the unwanted gaze.' Here I see major issues and concerns as society evolves, and I've written often on the subject. Guy Gavriel Kay society technology people world 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 accident consequences something me The very best way I can make any reader believe in the nuts and bolts of an art form... is to know the mechanics, to make the characters grounded in convincing detail. Guy Gavriel Kay best believe way art 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 feel know magic sadness 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 she leave admit 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 balance morning trying way I've spent my whole literary career blurring boundaries between genres and categories. Guy Gavriel Kay between career whole boundaries 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 value way art thinking When we work with history, to a very great degree we are all guessing. But by using motifs of time and history in a fantasy setting, we are acknowledging that this educated guesswork, invention, fantasy underlie our treatment of the past and its peoples - and we are not claiming a right to do with them as we will. Guy Gavriel Kay great work time history
