George R. R. Martin Quotes
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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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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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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 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 have files, I have computer files and, you know, files on paper. But most of it is really in my head. So God help me if anything ever happens to my head!
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There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings.
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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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All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful.
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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, as in Hollywood or in a shared world series, will also strengthen your skills, by exposing you to new ways of seeing the work, and different approaches to certain creative challenges.
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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 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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A lot of writing takes place in the subconscious, and it's bound to have an effect.
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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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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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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 suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic.
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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.
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I'm one of those writers who say, 'I've enjoy having written.'
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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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Unfortunately in television, for whatever reason, fantasy became thought of as a kids' genre.
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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.