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The vast majority of writers out there, they finish their books and no one cares whether their book is late or ever comes out at all. And then it comes out and two reviews are published and it sells 12 copies.

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George R. R. Martin
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: September 20
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If a man paints a target on his chest, he should expect that sooner or later someone will loose an arrow on him.
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A man does not need to be a wizard to know truth from falsehood, not if he has eyes. You need only learn to read a face. Look at the eyes. The mouth. The muscles here, at the corners of the jaw, and here, where the neck joins the shoulders.
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We look up at the same stars and see such different things. - Jon Snow
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They are children, Sansa thought. They are silly little girls, even Elinor. They’ve never seen a battle, they’ve never seen a man die, they know nothing. Their dreams were full of songs and stories, the way hers had been before Joffrey cut her fathers head off. Sansa pitied them. Sansa envied them.
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I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China and Liberia and England and Denmark and whatever, and I learned all the different flags and I tried to imagine what it would be like to be voyaging on some of these ships.
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For the night is dark and full of terrors.
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Love is the bane of honor, the death of duty.
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Eat your heart out, Rowling. Maybe you have billions of dollars and my Hugo, but you don't have readers like these.
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You should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care.
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As a writer, my goal, (which I'm never going to achieve, and I know that, and no writer can achieve that,) but my goal is to make you almost live the books. I want you to fall through that page and feel as if these things are happening to you.
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The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.
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The worst isn't done. The worst is just beginning, and there are no happy endings. (Samuel Tarly)
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There is something old and true in fantasy that speaks to something deep within us, to the child who dreamt that one day he would hunt the forests of the night, and feast beneath the hollow hills, and find a love to last forever somewhere south of Oz and north of Shangri-La.
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We'll need to make a litter to carry him, said Osha. No use, said Luwin. I'm dying, woman. You can't, said Rickon angrily. No you can't. Beside him, Shaggydog bared his teeth and growled. The maester smiled. Hush now, child, I'm much older than you. I can . . . die as I please.
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All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful.
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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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Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?- How else? Though not till I'm done reading.
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There are no happy endings.
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