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Trying Quotes by George R. R. Martin
- In order to get inside their skin, I have to identify with them. That includes even the ones who are complete bastards, nasty, twisted, deeply…
- I would also suggest that any aspiring writer begin with short stories. These days, I meet far too many young writers who try to start…
- There’s part of me that loves words. But sometimes it feels like you’re trying to drive nails with your shoe.
- I wrote six pilots, none of which ever got picked up. When you stop trying, it then it falls in your lap.
- 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 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 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…
- You always try to do your own thing. One of the things I wanted to do was to write a book that combines some of…
- Littlefinger looked like a boy who had just taken a furtive bite from a honeycomb. He was TRYING to watch for bees, but the honey…
- If I took it away, no doubt I'd find a morningstar hidden under your pillow within a fortnight. Try not to stab your sister, whatever…
- I heard of a man who had a razor made of Valyrian steel. He cut his head off trying to shave.
- Perhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a little less bad.
- Chaos isn’t a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail and never get to try again. The fall breaks them.…
More Trying Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold
- I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to… — Darren Aronofsky
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to… — Antonin Artaud
- Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. — Mary Kay Ash