“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
“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
“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
“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
“But words in a book were one thing. The true test came in battle.” — 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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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
