Fiction Quotes by George R. R. Martin

15 Fiction quotes by George R. R. Martin

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Martin’s world‑building is legendary, and his thoughts on fiction echo that grand scale. Fifteen snippets give a taste of his view that stories are the fire that keeps imagination alive.

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Historical fiction is not history. You're blending real events and actual historical personages with characters of your own creation.

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Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction.

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I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separated at birth.

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All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful.

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As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen.

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I've said in many interviews that I like my fiction to be unpredictable. I like there to be considerable suspense.

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Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire', as historical fiction about…

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The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud between Robert Louis Stevenson and…

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I've always taken that as my guiding principle and the rest is just set dressing. You can have dragons in it, or…

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And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description…

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All fiction, if it's successful, is going to appeal to the emotions. Emotion is really what fiction is all about. That's not…

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I was a journalism major, and I would take creative writing classes as part of that, but I would also look for…

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Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science…

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If you go all the way back, I've always written science-fiction, I've always written fantasy, I've always written horror stories and monster…

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The best writing advice I had was [in] ‘Heinlein’s Rules for Writers’ by (American science fiction author) Robert A. Heinlein. His first…

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“A man who sees nothing has no use for his eyes.”

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The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves.

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That little touch is not in the books, but I wish it had been in the books because it was a great addition.

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I always felt like Gandalf should have stayed dead. That was such an incredible sequence in Fellowship of the Ring when he faces the…

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The girl had hoped for fog, but the gods ignored her prayers as gods so often did.

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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…

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Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne,…

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I believe that women are many different types of people. There are brave women, there are cowardly women, there are altruistic women, there are…

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I know nothing and perhaps I never will,

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