Books Quote by George R.R. Martin

My works are a direct response to the typical space opera. I grew tired of always reading about how the people with power, with…

— Nathan Lowell

I'm not sure any narrative model has been more important for me than Benjamin Britten's chamber operas.

— Garth Greenwell

“In fact, is the idea of a serious comparison of American musicals and opera really so outrageous?”

— Lawrence W. Levine

“And there are still a number of people around who say that Hammett didn't write detective stories at all-merely hard-boiled chronicles of mean streets…

— Raymond Chandler

“A novel is more a symphony, opera, oratorio. It exists in time, it goes by you a sound dying out as you write on,…

— Dorothy Bryant

“Good fiction is trawling back into the past and digging up the real characters who've influenced your entire being.”

— Ken Scott

“and people could only make sense of complicated matters through stories. Likewise”

— Neal Stephenson

The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.

— Harrison Birtwistle

“I like fiction and the history...Great!”

— Anonymous

“History is indeed stranger than fiction. The twists and turns of human history are too outlandish for to be believable in any work of…

— A.E. Samaan

“My grandmother's life had been one long opera. There had been drama, heroes, villains, improbable twists, all that. But most of all there had…

— Alex George

“...worst of all were the highly unlikely science-fiction novels, or the equally implausible futuristic tales. Couldn't my mom and Nana Victoria see for themselves…

— John Irving