Guy Gavriel Kay Quotes

I just went and got an agent because I thought I can create my own world - you can't right your own life, but you can escape to a world where you can have control.

I love imagining being someone else in another time.

I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.

I'm really into the idea of telling stories. Everyone needs stories. Everyone needs to escape every once in a while.

Fiction just makes it all more interesting. Truth is so boring.

It's not magic that takes us to another world - it's storytelling.

I'm not interested in an imaginary world.

With my writing, I can still play inside an enchanted castle or live inside an old fort. I can run from ghosts or ride dolphins any day of the week.

I don't often know exactly what's coming next, and that makes it more fun. And you know, for me, this entire genre is all about that; it's all about having fun and getting away from the mundane world for just a little while.

Part of the beauty of fiction is that we come alive in a body that we don't own.

I've been falsely accused of drawing too much from real life. But I am a petty thief - I take little things. And, I mean, I can hardly write 10 words before I start to make things up. I start to invent, because that's what I want to do. I'm running away to an invented place.

When you're a little kid, you are small, your life is small - and you're terrifically aware of that. But when you read, you can ride Arabian horses across the desert, you can be a dogsledder.

Other people can write grown-up, political plays about the troubles in the world. My plays deal with magic and hope.

I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I always read books, and I could go to Mars or Middle Earth or the Hyborian age.

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.

I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.

I love creating characters and becoming someone else entirely.

While all the other kids were out playing ball and stuff, I used to stay in my room and imagine that there was a camera in the wall. And I used to really believe that I was putting on a television show and that it was going out to somewhere in the world.

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another.

Ultimately, in my mind, that's what I'm trying to do with my fiction; I'm trying to transport my reader into a different world.

One of the great things about books is you can afford to do anything.