Not all books are for all people. We read for different reasons. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Art is not a democracy. People don't get to vote on how it ends. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
You want people to be eager for your book; the downside is when the people forget the series even exists. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I know who's going to be on the throne [in the Gameof Thrones], at the end, so I better not say. But,… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
The common people pray for rain, healthy children and a summer that never ends. It is no matter to them if the… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I believe that women are many different types of people. There are brave women, there are cowardly women, there are altruistic women,… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Most people were startled to find out there were books that preceded Game Of Thrones. I'm a case of working forty years… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
You can't just pick people for their hair color or the shape of their face. You have to go with the best… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
People are going to die who don't die in the books, so even the book readers will be unhappy. So everybody better… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
The way my books are structured, everyone was together, then they all went their separate ways and the story deltas out like… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I don't know if I have any particular views about women in positions of power, though I do think it's more difficult… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
There are a number of things that I'm trying to get into the books. There's a meta-fictional aspect, if I may use… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I was a novelist first. But in the mid-'80s, I did work in television for ten years. And yes, that was frequently… — 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
As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but also… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people out there who will write books, in which everything turns out nicely and the bad guys… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Ruling is hard. This was maybe my answer to Tolkien, whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with. Lord… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I had written three books [Games of Throne], at that point, and each one of them was better than the other. At… — 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
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