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- I don't like the strictly objective viewpoint [in which all of the characters' actions are described in the third person, but we never hear what…
- All fiction, if it's successful, is going to appeal to the emotions. Emotion is really what fiction is all about. That's not to say fiction…
- From where I sit, battles are hard. I've written my share. Sometimes I employ the private's viewpoint, very up close and personal, dropping the reader…
- Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it's the execution that is all-important.
- 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 question:…
- Life is very full of sex, or should be. As much as I admire Tolkien - and I do, he was a giant of fantasy…
- I never finished any of my early stories. They were all beginnings, an endless number of beginnings.
- It’s being ready to accept rejection. You can work on a book for two years and get it published, and it’s like you may as…
- The way my books are structured, everyone was together, then they all went their separate ways and the story deltas out like that, and now…
- I could have written a story about a well-adjusted family. Ned Stark comes down to King’s Landing and takes over and solves all their problems.…
- I do know what’s been useless to me is the online fantasy name generators. I’ve tried those a few times, and they say, ‘Just hit…
- Wine makes all things possible. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN, The Mystery Knight A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees…
- Sometimes I think some of my fellow novelists who have not worked in television and film are very naive about this process. They get an…
- Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.
- An awful lot of fantasy, and even some great fantasy, falls into the mistake of assuming that a good man will be a good king,…
- All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful.
- I worked out of Hollywood for 10 years and I had my heart broken half a dozen times, so I know all the things that…
- As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but also for hate. I…
- I can see a scene in my head, and when I try to get it down in words on paper, the words are clunky; the…
- I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China and Liberia and…
- Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're starting fantasy, don't…
- The vast majority of writers out there, they finish their books, and no one cares whether their book is late or ever comes out at…
- With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the special effects guy…
- We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.
- A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no…
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