I always felt like Gandalf should have stayed dead. That was such an incredible sequence in Fellowship of the Ring when he… — 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
I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces… — 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
Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're… — 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
I could have written a story about a well-adjusted family. Ned Stark comes down to King’s Landing and takes over and solves… — 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
I think my very earliest stories were all intellectual exercises and I was writing from experiences I had never had about characters… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I was just a kid selling monster stories to the kids in the projects, complete with a dramatic reading, making the werewolf… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Turtles have always been my sigil, I suppose. When I was a kid, growing up in Bayonne, NJ, I lived in a… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I never finished any of my early stories. They were all beginnings, an endless number of beginnings. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
We're all the heroes of our own stories. So, when I am inside the head of a character who would otherwise be… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
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… — 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
I would also suggest that any aspiring writer begin with short stories. These days, I meet far too many young writers who… — 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
I believe that a writer learns from every story he writes, and when you try different things, you learn different lessons. Working… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I have idea files of books that I want to write one of these days, stories I want to write one of… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
It was a story called ‘The Hero’ which I sold to Galaxy magazine in 1970, for $94. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I always give my students exercises where they really have to open a vein and bleed all over the paper and that's… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I had these cheap alien toys and I made up stories for them. They were space pirates. They didn’t have names so… — 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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