I know who's going to be on the throne [in the Gameof Thrones], at the end, so I better not say. But,… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
We know truth for the cruel instrument it is. Beauty is infinitely preferable to truth. — 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
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
This is the bravo’s dance, the water dance, swift and sudden. All men are made of water, do you know this? When… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
All men lie when they are afraid. Some tell many lies, some but a few. Some have only one great lie they… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I do know what’s been useless to me is the online fantasy name generators. I’ve tried those a few times, and they… — 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 get up every day and work in the morning. I have my coffee and get to work. On good days I… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Swords have been my life, not books. But every child knows that the Targaryens have always danced too close to madness. Your… — 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 know better. Our gods gave us legs to run with, noses to smell with, hands to touch and feel. What mad cruel god would give a man eyes and tell him he must forever keep them shut, and… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share
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
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 question: What was Aragorn’s tax policy? Did he maintain a standing army? What did he do in times of flood and famine? And what about all these orcs? By the end of the war, Sauron is… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share
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 Balrog on the Khazad-dûm and he falls into the gulf, and his last words are, ‘Fly, you fools’. What power that had, how that grabbed me. And then he comes back as Gandalf the White, and… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share
“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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