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Books Quotes by George R. R. Martin
- I hate outlines. I have a broad sense of where the story is going; I know the end, I know the end of the principal…
- Nothing bores me more than books where you read two pages and you know exactly how it's going to come out. I want twists and…
- Ten years from now, no one is going to care how quickly the books came out. The only thing that will matter, the only thing…
- People are going to die who don't die in the books, so even the book readers will be unhappy. So everybody better be on their…
- 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…
- Names are hard. I have a library of What to Name Your Baby books, and I’m always picking up new books, and books of baby…
- As a writer, my goal, (which I'm never going to achieve, and I know that, and no writer can achieve that,) but my goal is…
- The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems like real life is flickering…
- I have idea files of books that I want to write one of these days, stories I want to write one of these days, but…
- One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable.
- I grew up with four T.V. channels. If you missed a show, you missed it. You gotta wait a week for the next one. I'd…
- I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I…
- I'm a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, and they had a profound…
- 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…
- Sleep is good, he said, And books are better.
- A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.
- My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer and I have my mind...and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone…
- Swords have been my life, not books. But every child knows that the Targaryens have always danced too close to madness. Your father was not…
- Sam loved to listen to music and make his own songs, to wear soft velvets, to play in the castle kitchen beside the cooks, drinking…
- Books are dead men talking.
- The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy.
- One of the great things about books is you can afford to do anything.
- I think that, in all of my time, I got just one fan letter, from an NFL fullback named Darian Barnes. NFL players might not…
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