Want Quotes by George R. R. Martin

13 Want quotes by George R. R. Martin

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Martin’s 13 reflections on wanting provide a quick entry point into the mind behind epic sagas, showing how even a few lines can carry his signature weight.

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I have idea files of books that I want to write one of these days, stories I want to write one of…

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I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story.

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I want you to be afraid to turn the page (and to do that) you need to show right from the beginning…

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I want to weep, she thought. I want to be comforted. I'm so tired of being strong. I want to be foolish…

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If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scary thing. And…

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You want people to be eager for your book; the downside is when the people forget the series even exists.

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I don't know if I have any particular views about women in positions of power, though I do think it's more difficult…

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Nothing bores me more than books where you read two pages and you know exactly how it's going to come out. I…

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I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20 years or…

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As a writer, my goal, (which I'm never going to achieve, and I know that, and no writer can achieve that,) but…

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It's like these ideas, these characters, kind of bubble up inside me, and one day they're not there, and the next day…

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All fiction, if it's successful, is going to appeal to the emotions. Emotion is really what fiction is all about. That's not…

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I'm a strong believer in telling stories through a limited but very tight third person point of view. I have used other…

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“A man who sees nothing has no use for his eyes.”

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That little touch is not in the books, but I wish it had been in the books because it was a great addition.

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I always felt like Gandalf should have stayed dead. That was such an incredible sequence in Fellowship of the Ring when he faces the…

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“The title was but a courtesy due him as a council member; Varys was lord of nothing but the spiderweb, the master of none…

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The girl had hoped for fog, but the gods ignored her prayers as gods so often did.

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Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire', as historical fiction about history that…

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“Jaime had decided that he would return Sansa, and the younger girl as well if she could be found. It was not like to…

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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…

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Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne,…

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I believe that women are many different types of people. There are brave women, there are cowardly women, there are altruistic women, there are…

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I know nothing and perhaps I never will,

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