Kay Kenyon Quotes & Sayings

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. — Kay Kenyon

Tori gazed out on the calm Ancific Ocean across which, incredibly, she would be taking a coach. — Kay Kenyon

She shrugged. "Ownership is a fragile concept. — Kay Kenyon

Even when I'm writing about shape shifters and magical lands, I'm looking into my own heart. — Kay Kenyon

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

Every man wishes to be king. Her hair snapped about her, buzzing. — Kay Kenyon

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

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

The worst kind of poison for despots: truth. — Kay Kenyon

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

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. — Kay Kenyon

3,117 people had lost their lives in the flood. And the king had missed breakfast — Kay Kenyon

The awful, ironic, glorious fix for the writing doldrums is to write the next page. — Kay Kenyon

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? — Kay Kenyon

I love storytelling when the writing spins through me like photons on their way to lighting the world. — Kay Kenyon

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