Quotes by Trudi Canavan

About Trudi Canavan:

Trudi Canavan is an Australian writer of fantasy novels, best known for her best-selling fantasy trilogies The Black Magician trilogy and Age of the Five. While establishing her writing career she worked as a graphic designer. She completed her third trilogy The Traitor Spy trilogy in August 2012 with The Traitor Queen. After this Canavan will be writing a new trilogy on a completely new world called Millennium’s Rule and will consist of multiple worlds which characters can cross between.
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'The Black Magician Trilogy' was about a conflict between countries and was very limited and almost claustrophobic in its range of settings, while 'The Age of the Five' was about a conflict between continents.

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I don't have any specific plans to return to the 'Age of the Five.' If I do, it won't be a sequel.

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I wound up studying art and design, got a job at Lonely Planet Publications as a designer, cartographer and illustrator.

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It is said, in Imardin, that the wind has a soul, and that it wails through the narrow streets because it is grieved by what it finds there.

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Lo único que se necesita en la vida es seguridad, conocimiento y mucho descaro.

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Cery: So, Hem, tell me why I shouldn't see how many holes I need to make before you start leaking money?

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The first rule of world-building is available physics, which basically means that if you want it to feel real, it has to follow the same rules as this world, from gravity to how human behaviour works. If you have a fantasy element that doesn't obey t...

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I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.

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Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear, misheard words or lyrics, dreams... Motivation? The memory of the rush I get from a really good writin...

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I still recommend reading travel guides as an insight to a traveller's perspective on fantasy worlds. Nearly all characters end up travelling at some point, and they have many of the same needs and concerns covered in travel guides.

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'The Magician's Apprentice' was about someone from the low end of society manifesting magical power and how that completely messes up the balance of the whole system.

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I always love writing the third book in a series because you get to tie up all the threads that you put out in the first two books. You finally let people know what really happens and reveal all the secrets and bring certain characters together.

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Author Bio

  • NameTrudi Canavan
  • DescriptionAustralian writer
  • BornOctober 23, 1969
  • CountryAustralia
  • ProfessionGraphic Designer; Writer; Novelist
  • AwardsAurealis Award