Books Quote by George R.R. Martin

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…

— George R. R. Martin

“Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care. If somebody dies…

— George R.R. Martin

“The death of someone is like reading a book, yet having it end, where it wasn't supposed to.”

— Cindy Vo Nguyen

“The sad thing about reading the book and then watching the movie is that they have to die all over again.”

— Joyce Rachelle

“What was the point of having a situation worthy of fiction if the protagonist didn't behave as he would have done in a book?”

— Julian Barnes

“Leave me alone to mourn the deaths of fictional characters I have become overly attached to.”

— Your Ecards

“Now he only had an abstract interest in what was surrounding him, as though none of this was happening to him, but he was…

— Dmitry Glukhovsky

“The day when you shed a tear for the death of a fictional character, you know they have become more than a character.”

— Ryan J. Alls

“That's part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life,…

— John Green

“I'm talking about those novels where the characters aren't really interesting and you don't care about them or anything they care about. It's those…

— Will Schwalbe

“Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it.”

— Neil Gaiman

“I have a fear of dying partway through a book—of never knowing the ending. It’s silly, I know, but it makes me a quick…

— Steve Robinson