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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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George R. R. Martin
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: September 20
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It was astonishing to see how angry Cersei could wax over accusations she knew perfectly well to be true.
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All my life men like you've sneered at me, and all my life I've been knocking men like you into the dust.
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One night, in his cups, he drank a jar of wildfire, after telling his friends it would transform him into a dragon, but the gods were kind and it transformed him into a corpse.
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The most important thing for any aspiring writer, is to read! And not just the sort of thing you're trying to write, be that fantasy, SF, comic books, whatever. You need to read everything.
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For herself, she wanted sleet and ice, howling winds, thunder to shake the very stones of the Red Keep. She wanted a storm to match her rage.
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She went to the window seat and sat there, sniffling, hating them all, and herself most of all. It was all her fault, everything bad that had happened.
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I work for two years on a book and it comes out and two days later I've got my first e-mail: When is the next one coming out?
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Has my tale turned you speechless? Come, curse me or kiss me or call me a liar. Something.
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Names are hard. I have a library of What to Name Your Baby books, and I’m always picking up new books, and books of baby names from other countries. I like cool-sounding names.
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Some gave me soft words and some blunt, some made excuses, some promises, some only lied. In the end words are just wind.
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