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You Quotes by George R. R. Martin
- 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 odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems like real life is flickering…
- An awful lot of fantasy, and even some great fantasy, falls into the mistake of assuming that a good man will be a good king,…
- As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen.
- I suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic.
- 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 grew up with four T.V. channels. If you missed a show, you missed it. You gotta wait a week for the next one. I'd…
- I knew that, when writing a book, you're not constrained by a budget. You're not constrained by what you can do, in terms of 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…
- 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…
- One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of writing, one of which was, 'You must finish…
- Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're starting fantasy, don't…
- The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and The Yiddish Policemen's Union. He's a writer who's determined…
- 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…
- I have files, I have computer files and, you know, files on paper. But most of it is really in my head. So God help…
- One of the great things about books is you can afford to do anything.
- You want people to be eager for your book; the downside is when the people forget the series even exists.
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