If the day comes when you would find me again, give that coin to any man from Braavos, and say these words… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
There is no shame in loving. If your septons say there is, your seven gods must be demons. In the isles we… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
If half an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good or he is evil. (Melisandre… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
In order to get inside their skin, I have to identify with them. That includes even the ones who are complete bastards,… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
If we leave our smells behind us when we leave a room, surely something of our souls must remain when we leave… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description… — 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
We're setting up mechanisms where we can kill human beings with drones and missiles where you're sitting at a console and pressing… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
If you die before you say her name, ser, I will hunt you through all seven hells. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Ruling is hard. This was maybe my answer to Tolkien, whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with. Lord… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I'm a strong believer in telling stories through a limited but very tight third person point of view. I have used other… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
If H. P. Lovecraft and H. L. Mencken had ever collaborated, they might have come up with something like The Edge of… — 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
If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it’s a superficial experience isn’t it? — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
There’s an old writing rule that says ‘Don’t have two character names start with the same letter’, but I knew at the… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I was a journalism major, and I would take creative writing classes as part of that, but I would also look for… — 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
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
All fiction, if it's successful, is going to appeal to the emotions. Emotion is really what fiction is all about. That's not… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Woman? Is that meant to insult me? I would return the slap, if I took you for a man. - Daenerys Targaryen — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
The common people pray for rain, healthy children and a summer that never ends. It is no matter to them if the… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Much as I admire Tolkien, I once again always felt like Gandalf should have stayed dead. That was such an incredible sequence… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
A lot of fantasy names are too much. They’re too difficult to pronounce. I wanted the flavour of medieval England. I took… — 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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