Books Quotes by George R.R. Martin

“A reader lives a thousand lives.”

— George R.R. Martin

“Reading books again? Books will ruin your sword eye, boy.”

— George R.R. Martin

“Reading books by candlelight will make you blind.”

— George R.R. Martin

“Old books are like Old friends”

— George R.R. Martin

“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

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.

— George R.R. Martin

“A book can be as dangerous as a sword in the right hands, said Haldon.”

— George R.R. Martin

“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

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

— George R.R. Martin

“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

“When somebody says 'it's just a book' smile because they just don't understand.”

— George R.R. Martin

“All writers are readers first, and all of us write the sort of books we want to read.”

— George R.R. Martin

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“My mind is my weapon. . . and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to…

— George R.R. Martin

“... 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

“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

“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