That little touch is not in the books, but I wish it had been in the books because it was a great… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Not all books are for all people. We read for different reasons. — 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
One of the great things about books is you can afford to do anything. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I had a couple of friends, but I was mostly the kid with his nose in a book. — 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
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
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 had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and… — 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
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
Names are hard. I have a library of What to Name Your Baby books, and I’m always picking up new books, and… — 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
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
It's really irritating when you open a book, and 10 pages into it you know that the hero you met on page… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I grew up with four T.V. channels. If you missed a show, you missed it. You gotta wait a week for the… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is… — 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
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 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
Nothing bores me more than books where you read two pages and you know exactly how it's going to come out. I… — 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
I have idea files of books that I want to write one of these days, stories I want to write one of… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, and they… — 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 work for two years on a book and it comes out and two days later I've got my first e-mail: When… — 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
I knew that, when writing a book, you're not constrained by a budget. You're not constrained by what you can do, in… — 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
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
Swords have been my life, not books. But every child knows that the Targaryens have always danced too close to madness. Your… — 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
[as for evolution]…cutting out the sections [on the subject] is preferrable if the portions are not thick enough to cause damage to… — 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
It’s being ready to accept rejection. You can work on a book for two years and get it published, and it’s like… — 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
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
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 Image
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 Image
The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
The girl had hoped for fog, but the gods ignored her prayers as gods so often did. — 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 history that… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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