George R. R. Martin Quotes

Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or fantasy or western mystery stories or so-called literary stories. All those things are essentially untrue. But it has to have a truth at the core of it.

George R. R. Martin

Quotes to Explore

I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.

Gabriel Byrne
- Friend
- Football
- Dying
The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.

Abu Bakar Bashir
- Small
- Islam
- Prophet
Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.

Vern Buchanan
- You
- Race
- Lose
The vampires in the 'VAMPS' series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don't get along very well. So you've got a culture that's from cradle to grave like the worst high school you've ever been in.

Nancy A. Collins
- School
- High
- Culture
How lucky are we to have Naomi Watts and Sean Penn playing us? We've seen the final cut now a couple times, and the scenes with the marriage fraying at the edges are still very difficult to watch. However, our hope was that no matter your political persuasion, you're taken with the idea that it's important to hold power in check.

Valerie Plame
- Important
- Power
- Hope
It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.

Laetitia Casta
- Time
- Different
- Fun