They'll kill for that knighthood, but don't ever think they'll die for it. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
We read fantasy to find the colors again, I think. To taste strong spices and hear the songs the sirens sang. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
And pray that he is the man I think he is, he finished silently, and not the man I fear he has… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
My biggest dream was to ruin the lives of my readers and crush their souls... And I really think that worked out… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I think my very earliest stories were all intellectual exercises and I was writing from experiences I had never had about characters… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
In my 10 years that I spent out in TV and film, I had my shares of frustrations and annoyances and disappointments,… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I had these cheap alien toys and I made up stories for them. They were space pirates. They didn’t have names so… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of writing, one of which was,… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow. Tyrion smiled. Lord Varys, I am growing strangely fond of you.… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Much as I admire Tolkien, I once again always felt like Gandalf should have stayed dead. That was such an incredible sequence… — 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
Life is very full of sex, or should be. As much as I admire Tolkien - and I do, he was a… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think some of my fellow novelists who have not worked in television and film are very naive about this process.… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I hate outlines. I have a broad sense of where the story is going; I know the end, I know the end… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Does he think to scare me? Arya kissed him where his nose should be and plucked the grave worm from his eye… — 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
I'm not a writer who's preaching some particular philosophy or something but the big questions do concern me and I like to… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I don't like the strictly objective viewpoint [in which all of the characters' actions are described in the third person, but we… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I feel satisfaction at the end of the day when I've written a scene that I really like or when I write… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I always felt like Gandalf should have stayed dead. That was such an incredible sequence in Fellowship of the Ring when he… — 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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