I tend to write one character at a time. But I don't write the entirety of one character at a time. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I know some writers can write on the road, but I'm not one of them. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
A lot of writing takes place in the subconscious, and it's bound to have an effect. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I'm one of those writers who say, 'I've enjoy having written.' — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I've written some standalone novels, but a book series allows fans in. There's much more intense involvement. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
You always try to do your own thing. One of the things I wanted to do was to write a book that… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
The vast majority of writers out there, they finish their books, and no one cares whether their book is late or ever… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it's the execution that is… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I've been very lucky. There were times when I was afraid I would never sell another book, but I never doubted I'd… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20 years or… — 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
There’s an old writing rule that says ‘Don’t have two character names start with the same letter’, but I knew at the… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
As a writer, my goal, (which I'm never going to achieve, and I know that, and no writer can achieve that,) but… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I would also suggest that any aspiring writer begin with short stories. These days, I meet far too many young writers who… — 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
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
The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems like real… — 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
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
I get up every day and work in the morning. I have my coffee and get to work. On good days I… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
From where I sit, battles are hard. I've written my share. Sometimes I employ the private's viewpoint, very up close and personal,… — 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
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
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 a strong believer in telling stories through a limited but very tight third person point of view. I have used other… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I want you to be afraid to turn the page (and to do that) you need to show right from the beginning… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
If you're going to write about war, which my books are about, wars are nasty things. I think it's sort of a… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
The most important thing for any aspiring writer, is to read! And not just the sort of thing you're trying to write,… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I do play all the characters, when I write them, one after another. If they actually had to film me, the only… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
When I am writing best, I really am lost in my world. I lose track of the outside world. I have a… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
One of the hardest parts of writing is writing from the gut or the heart or something like that rather than intellectually. — 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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