I write from this tight third-person viewpoint, where each chapter is seen through the eyes of one individual character. When I'm writing… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
When the writing is going really well, whole days and weeks go by, and I suddenly realise I have all these unpaid… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of writers. There are architects and gardeners. The architects do blueprints before they drive the first nail. The… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giants or elves or dwarves, or whatever they are,… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
When I'm writing from a character's viewpoint, in essence I become that character; I share their thoughts, I see the world through… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Come at once," she had written to him. "Help me. Save me. I need you now as I have never needed you… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I knew that, when writing a book, you're not constrained by a budget. You're not constrained by what you can do, in… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Many writers will get a contract by selling chapters and outlines or something like that. I wrote the entire novel, and when… — 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
My dreams are the usual incoherent nonsense. Like most writers, at some point in my career I thought, well, I have these… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer who's preaching some particular philosophy or something but the big questions do concern me and I like to… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I feel satisfaction at the end of the day when I've written a scene that I really like or when I write… — 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
I've never been good with deadlines. My early novels, I wrote by myself. No one knew I was writing a novel; I… — 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
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
The truth of it is, writers do have peculiar relationships with their characters. They are our children in more senses than one.… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
'Dreamsongs' allows me to show the scope of my writing - with personal commentary that puts the works in context and includes… — 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 know some writers can write on the road, but I'm not one of them. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
A lot of writing takes place in the subconscious, and it's bound to have an effect. — 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
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
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
Life is very full of sex, or should be. As much as I admire Tolkien - and I do, he was a… — 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
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
![“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)
