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Story 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 always felt like Gandalf should have stayed dead. That was such an incredible sequence in Fellowship of the Ring when he faces the Balrog…
- It was a story called ‘The Hero’ which I sold to Galaxy magazine in 1970, for $94.
- 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.…
- Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.
- I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story.
- 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've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces for fanzines, and…
- You don't just have people who wake up in the morning and say, "What evil things can I do today, because I'm Mr. Evil?" People…
- I never liked Gandalf the White as much as Gandalf the Grey, and I never liked him coming back. I think it would have been…
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