We know truth for the cruel instrument it is. Beauty is infinitely preferable to truth. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share
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
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
“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
The girl had hoped for fog, but the gods ignored her prayers as gods so often did. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share
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
“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
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
Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne,… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share
I believe that women are many different types of people. There are brave women, there are cowardly women, there are altruistic women, there are… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share
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