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Work Quotes by George R. R. Martin
- I get up every day and work in the morning. I have my coffee and get to work. On good days I look up and…
- It’s being ready to accept rejection. You can work on a book for two years and get it published, and it’s like you may as…
- I work for two years on a book and it comes out and two days later I've got my first e-mail: When is the next…
- I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.
- 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 have done a lot of work in Hollywood myself. I worked in television for roughly 10 years, from the mid-'80s to mid-'90s. And I…
- I was a novelist first. But in the mid-'80s, I did work in television for ten years. And yes, that was frequently the reaction to…
- Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to…
- Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you
- Writing is hard. I mean, I sit there and work at it.
More Work Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach