I've said in many interviews that I like my fiction to be unpredictable. I like there to be considerable suspense. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Historical fiction is not history. You're blending real events and actual historical personages with characters of your own creation. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separated at birth. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I've always taken that as my guiding principle and the rest is just set dressing. You can have dragons in it, or… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire', as historical fiction about… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud between Robert Louis Stevenson and… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
The best writing advice I had was [in] ‘Heinlein’s Rules for Writers’ by (American science fiction author) Robert A. Heinlein. His first… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
If you go all the way back, I've always written science-fiction, I've always written fantasy, I've always written horror stories and monster… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
All fiction, if it's successful, is going to appeal to the emotions. Emotion is really what fiction is all about. That's not… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I was a journalism major, and I would take creative writing classes as part of that, but I would also look for… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Tolkien can say that Aragorn became king and reigned for a hundred years, and he was wise and good. But Tolkien doesn’t ask the… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share
The best writing advice I had was [in] ‘Heinlein’s Rules for Writers’ by (American science fiction author) Robert A. Heinlein. His first rule is… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share
The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share
That little touch is not in the books, but I wish it had been in the books because it was a great addition. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share
I always felt like Gandalf should have stayed dead. That was such an incredible sequence in Fellowship of the Ring when he faces the… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share
“The title was but a courtesy due him as a council member; Varys was lord of nothing but the spiderweb, the master of none… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share
The girl had hoped for fog, but the gods ignored her prayers as gods so often did. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share
Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire', as historical fiction about history that… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share
“Jaime had decided that he would return Sansa, and the younger girl as well if she could be found. It was not like to… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share
If the day comes when you would find me again, give that coin to any man from Braavos, and say these words to him--valar… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share
Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne,… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share
I believe that women are many different types of people. There are brave women, there are cowardly women, there are altruistic women, there are… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share
![“The best writing advice I had was [in] ‘Heinlein’s Rules for Writers’ by (American science fiction author) Robert A. Heinlein. His first rule is that you must write, and I was already doing that, but his second rule is, ‘You must finish what you write,’ and that had a big impact on me.” quote by George R. R. Martin](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/14d/george-r-r-martin-2-926_advice_the-best-writing-advice-i-had-was-in-hei_51395.jpg)
