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I've written some standalone novels, but a book series allows fans in. There's much more intense involvement.

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George R. R. Martin
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: September 20
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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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The Red God takes what is his, lovely girl. And only death may pay for life. You saved me and the two I was with. You stole three deaths from the Red God. We have to give them back. Speak three names and the man will do the rest. Three lives I will give you - no more, no less, and we're done.
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...spend my time warring and whoring, that's what I was made for.
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They say night's beauties fade at dawn, and the children of wine are oft disowned in the morning light.
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I grew up with four T.V. channels. If you missed a show, you missed it. You gotta wait a week for the next one. I'd mail-order books: take a quarter, get an envelope, send off for it and wait until it arrived. I grew up waiting for things.
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Ser Cleos looked like a weasel, fought like a goose, and had the courage of an especially brave ewe.
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A frightened man is a beaten man.
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Sometimes I think everyone is just pretending to be brave, and none of us really are. Maybe pretending is how you get brave, I don't know.
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All dwarfs are bastards in their father's eyes
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The eunuch had looked death in the face, so near he might have kissed her on the lips.
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Historical fiction is not history. You're blending real events and actual historical personages with characters of your own creation.
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He who hurries through life hurries to his grave.
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Sometimes he could almost forget that it was there, the way you forget about the sky or the earth underfoot, but there were other times when it seemed as if there was nothing else in the world.
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The heart lies and the head plays tricks on us, but the eyes see true. Look with your eyes. Hear with your ears. Taste with your mouth. Smell with your nose. Feel with your skin. Then comes the thinking, afterward, and in a way knowing the truth.
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Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction.
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Another name? Oh, certainly. And when the Faceless Men come to kill me, I'll say, 'No, you have the wrong man, I'm a different dwarf with a hideous facial scar.' Both Lannisters laughed at the absurdity of it all.
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And all was black and still, and black and cold, and black and dead, and black.
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Mothers. The man made a word sound like a curse. I think birthing does something to your minds. You are all mad.
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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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