There’s part of me that loves words. But sometimes it feels like you’re trying to drive nails with your shoe. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
The most important thing for any aspiring writer, is to read! And not just the sort of thing you're trying to write,… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Start trying to work out who deserves what, and before long you'll spend the rest of your days weeping for each and… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
If I took it away, no doubt I'd find a morningstar hidden under your pillow within a fortnight. Try not to stab… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
You always try to do your own thing. One of the things I wanted to do was to write a book that… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I wrote six pilots, none of which ever got picked up. When you stop trying, it then it falls in your lap. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Chaos isn’t a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail and never get to try again. The… — 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
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 can see a scene in my head, and when I try to get it down in words on paper, the words… — 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
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
I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is… — 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
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
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
