George R. R. Martin Quotes
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I find religion and spirituality fascinating. I would like to believe this isn't the end and there's something more, but I can't convince the rational part of me that that makes any sense whatsoever.
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When the writing is going really well, whole days and weeks go by, and I suddenly realise I have all these unpaid bills and, my God, I haven't unpacked, and the suitcase has been sitting there for three weeks.
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I think that, in all of my time, I got just one fan letter, from an NFL fullback named Darian Barnes. NFL players might not have enough time for my books.
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I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.
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Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne, N.J.
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I have idea files of books that I want to write one of these days, stories I want to write one of these days, but I'll probably never get to them.
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Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire', as historical fiction about history that never happened, flavoured with a dash of sorcery and spiced with dragons. I take that as a compliment.
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The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud between Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James. James won, and it split literature into two streams. But it's a totally false dichotomy.
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I've said in many interviews that I like my fiction to be unpredictable. I like there to be considerable suspense.
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Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.
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I wrote six pilots, none of which ever got picked up. When you stop trying, it then it falls in your lap.
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I worked out of Hollywood for 10 years and I had my heart broken half a dozen times, so I know all the things that can go wrong.
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With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the special effects guy and the lighting technician: I'm all of that. So if it's good or bad, it's all up to me.
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I tend to write one character at a time. But I don't write the entirety of one character at a time.
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All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful.
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A lot of writing takes place in the subconscious, and it's bound to have an effect.
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There was part of me that wanted to see the world and travel to distant places, but I could only do it in my imagination, so I read ferociously and imagined things.
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I'm one of those writers who say, 'I've enjoy having written.'
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Unfortunately in television, for whatever reason, fantasy became thought of as a kids' genre.
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I watch NFL football on Sundays. I enjoy gaming with friends, meaning role-playing games; I still enjoy going to conventions and traveling.
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There has to be a level of joy of what you're doing.
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The cable makers are the ones who are willing to take risks and do something original and push the envelope some.
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I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giants or elves or dwarves, or whatever they are, they're still human, and the human heart is still in conflict with the self.