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Character 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…
- 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…
- I'm a strong believer in telling stories through a limited but very tight third person point of view. I have used other techniques during my…
- You should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care.
- 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…
- The real issue lies in the North beyond the Wall. Stannis becomes one of the few characters fully to understand that, which is why in…
- 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…
- There’s an old writing rule that says ‘Don’t have two character names start with the same letter’, but I knew at the beginning that I…
- Tolkien made the wrong choice when he brought Gandalf back. Screw Gandalf. He had a great death and the characters should have had to go…
- I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters.
- I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains.
- I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.
- 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 try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should…
- I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giants or elves or dwarves, or whatever they are, they're still human,…
More Character Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships… — J. J. Abrams
- My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough. — Lance Armstrong
- Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting. — Darren Aronofsky
- You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
- I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembered as a character mostly… — Rowan Atkinson
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson