Kay Kenyon Quotes

#1. A novel in progress doesn't have a clear, forward process. It's messy, like a beloved, balky child.

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#2. I love storytelling when the writing spins through me like photons on their way to lighting the world.

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#3. It was always easy to think that happiness and wisdom lay in the shadows, in places that have never yet been seen.

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#4. He didn't know which he preferred: the Red, with its fatalistic and pious acceptance of all futures, or the Misery, acknowledging that the more you attracted notice, the worse God dealt with you.

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#5. She shrugged. "Ownership is a fragile concept.

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#6. The student asks: If my redstone necklace had every view of every veil that ever brightened, would I be wise? The master answers: If I had a thousand pieces of a priceless vase, would I be rich?

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#7. Tori gazed out on the calm Ancific Ocean across which, incredibly, she would be taking a coach.

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#8. Every man wishes to be king. Her hair snapped about her, buzzing.

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#9. Even when I'm writing about shape shifters and magical lands, I'm looking into my own heart.

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#10. He had always thought that death was black nothingness, but he had not counted on being awake for it.

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#11. The writer's special talent is to empathize with people and imagine their lives. We know them as we write them.

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#12. We must love all of creation, not only what is common. A god may have the head of an elephant, after all.

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#13. The worst kind of poison for despots: truth.

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#14. The awful, ironic, glorious fix for the writing doldrums is to write the next page.

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#15. Like a lot of people, she thought love solved everything: just smear it over the problem, and it'll all work out. Then they had the arrogance to pity you if you saw things more rationally.

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#16. 3,117 people had lost their lives in the flood. And the king had missed breakfast

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