Not all books are for all people. We read for different reasons. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Art is not a democracy. People don't get to vote on how it ends. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
You want people to be eager for your book; the downside is when the people forget the series even exists. — 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
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
I believe that women are many different types of people. There are brave women, there are cowardly women, there are altruistic women,… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Most people were startled to find out there were books that preceded Game Of Thrones. I'm a case of working forty years… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
The way my books are structured, everyone was together, then they all went their separate ways and the story deltas out like… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
People are going to die who don't die in the books, so even the book readers will be unhappy. So everybody better… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I don't know if I have any particular views about women in positions of power, though I do think it's more difficult… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science… — 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
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 had written three books [Games of Throne], at that point, and each one of them was better than the other. At… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
You can't just pick people for their hair color or the shape of their face. You have to go with the best… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
There are a number of things that I'm trying to get into the books. There's a meta-fictional aspect, if I may use… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I was a novelist first. But in the mid-'80s, I did work in television for ten years. And yes, that was frequently… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but also… — 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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![“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 that you must write, and I was already doing that, but his second rule is, ‘You must finish what you write,’ and that had a big impact on me.” quote by George R. R. Martin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/14d/george-r-r-martin-2-926_advice_the-best-writing-advice-i-had-was-in-hei_51395.jpg)
