Guy Gavriel Kay Art Quotations

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

Lazy poets try to elicit a reader's response with words designed to tug at the heart.

The heart has its own laws... and the truth is... the truth is that you are the law of mine.

She was owner and captive, both, of a bitterly divided heart.

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.

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.