“All writers are readers first, and all of us write the sort of books we want to read.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“When somebody says 'it's just a book' smile because they just don't understand.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“It is hard to be so old, and harder still to be so blind. I miss the sun. And books. I miss… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“But words in a book were one thing. The true test came in battle.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one. — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“you would know all this if you had troubled to read the book that Maester Kedry gave you.” “It had no pictures.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. That is why I read… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“A book can be as dangerous as a sword in the right hands, said Haldon.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“He'll be down with the books. My old septon used to say books are dead men talking. Dead men should keep quiet… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“I have lived a thousand lives and I have loved a thousand loves. I've walked on distant worlds and seen the end… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“I have my mind … and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.” Tyrion… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Duty. Honor. He yearns to write his name large across the book of history, to get away from his wife, or both.… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Books should broaden us, take us to places we have never been and show us things we’ve never seen, expand our horizons… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Before he had lost his sight, the maester had loved books as much as Samwell Tarly did. He understood the way that… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“I know that sounds too earnest, but it’s true. I mean, I would rather be a librarian, but I worry about the… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“I accept what I am, but I did not choose it. I experience human life in the only way I can, vicariously.… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Why do you read so much?" "I have a realistic grasp of my own strengths and weaknesses. My mind is my weapon.… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Books should broaden us, take us to places we have never been and show us things we’ve never seen, expand our horizons… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Lord Rodrik was seldom seen without a book in hand, be it in the privy, on the deck of his Sea Song,… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“It was like murdering two of your children. I try to make the readers feel they’ve lived the events of the book.… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Sure, I knew the differences between a space opera and a hard-boiled detective story and a historical novel...but I never cared about… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“The comic book is not the book. the graphic novel is not the novel. The same, of course, is true of films… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“I have a realistic grasp of my own strengths and weaknesses. My mind is my weapon. My brother has his sword, King… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Asha climbed quickly, to the fifth story and the room where her uncle read. Not that there are any rooms where he… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Dany "Bring me that book I was reading last night." She wanted to lose herself in the words, in other times and… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“I admire Tolkien greatly. His books had enormous influence on me. And the trope that he sort of established—the idea of the… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“As for 'too much description,' well, opinions differ. We write the books we want to read. And I want to read books… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“In my introduction to Warriors, the first of our crossgenre anthologies, I talked about growing up in Bayonne, New Jersey, in the… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“I often said that writers are of two types. There is the architect, which is one type. The architect, as if designing… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.” ― George R.R. Martin,… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“My mind is my weapon. . . and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have my mind … and a mind needs books as… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“And it’s great to have all these readers and fans who, for the most part, are very nice people, saying they love… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Neither's the one you get, less you want me to see if your apple's ripe, yet. - Yoren” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“It is my look they will flinch from now, my frown that they must fear.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Everything Syrio Forel had ever taught her vanished in a heartbeat. In that instant of sudden terror, the only lesson Arya could remember was… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Megga couldn’t sing, but she was mad to be kissed. She and Alla played a kissing game sometimes, she confessed, but it wasn’t the… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“The rain feels good against my face, Sam. It feels like tears. Let me stay a while longer, I pray you. It has been… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Every man who walks the earth casts a shadow on the world. Some are thin and weak, others long and dark.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“The shy girl she had known at Riverrun had grown into a woman who was by turns proud, fearful, cruel, dreamy, reckless, timid, stubborn,… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“He won the war on the battlefield and lost it in a bedchamber, poor fool.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“On the morning after battle the crows had feasted on victors and vanquished alike. How much can a crown be worth when a crow… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
