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Other Quotes by George R. R. Martin
- 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…
- Summer is the time for squabbles. In winter, we must protect one another, keep each other warm, share our strengths.
- 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 was a journalism major, and I would take creative writing classes as part of that, but I would also look for opportunities to write…
- 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…
- Wizards die the same as other men, once you cut their heads off.
- I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story.
- There is magic in my universe, but it's pretty low magic compared to other fantasies.
- I believe that a writer learns from every story he writes, and when you try different things, you learn different lessons. Working with other writers,…
- 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…
- Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?
- I am surrounded by flatterers and fools. It can drive a man to madness,.. . Half of them don’t dare tell me the truth, and…
- In a room sit three great men, a king, a priest, and a rich man with his gold. Between them stands a sellsword, a little…
- The Gods give with one hand and take with the other.
- Let me tell you something about wolves, child. When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives.…
- It was that white cloak that soiled me, not the other way around.
- The truth is all around you, plain to behold. The night is dark and full of terrors, the day bright and beautiful and full of…
- Sometimes he could almost forget that it was there, the way you forget about the sky or the earth underfoot, but there were other times…
- A man does not need to be a wizard to know truth from falsehood, not if he has eyes. You need only learn to read…
- Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the Other, who would drag us all into his eternal night.
- Gods be good, why would any man ever want to be king? When everyone was shouting King in the North, King in the North, I…
- He pushed himself to his feet. “Don’t lie, Sansa. I am malformed, scarred, and small, but…” she could see him groping “…abed, when the candles…
- As Daenerys Targaryen rose to her feet, her black hissed, pale smoke venting from its mouth and nostrils. The other two pulled away from her…
More Other Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour