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The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life
George R. R. Martin
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George R. R. Martin
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: September 20
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An artist has an obligation to tell the truth. [...] that the true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves. We are the monsters. (And the heroes too). Each of us has within himself the capacity for great good, and great evil.
George R. R. Martin
I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy. But, I wanted to put a somewhat different spin on it. The whole trope of absolute good versus absolute evil, which was wonderful in the hands of J.R. Tolkien, became cliche and rote in the hands of the many Tolkien imitators that followed.
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Anyone can be killed.
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In a heartbeat, a thousand voices took up the chant. King Joffrey and King Robb and King Stannis were forgotten, and King Bread ruled alone. Bread. they clamored. Bread, Bread!
George R. R. Martin
For men, the answer was always the same and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know.
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If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: 'What's great about that sixth book is that he met his deadline!' It will be about how the whole thing stands up.
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Fiction is lies we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or fantasy or western mystery stories or so-called literary stories. All those things are essentially untrue. But it has to have a truth at the core of it.
George R. R. Martin
There is magic in my universe, but it's pretty low magic compared to other fantasies.
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Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.
George R. R. Martin
I was a novelist first. But in the mid 80s, I did work in television for ten years. And yes, that was frequently the reaction to my scripts. People would say, you know, George, this is great. We love it, a terrific script, but it would cost five times our budget to shoot this.
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You make us look bad', complained Toad. 'You looked bad before I ever met you', Jon told him.
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And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things.
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I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.
George R. R. Martin
We're all the heroes of our own stories. So, when I am inside the head of a character who would otherwise be considered a villain, I have a great deal of affection for that character and I'm trying to see the world and the events through their eyes.
George R. R. Martin
Don't write outlines I hate outlines.
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Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.
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Spikes, he sighed. Heads. Walls.
George R. R. Martin
A man could not always be where he belonged, though.
George R. R. Martin
Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?
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All the world knew that a maester forged his silver link when he learned the art of healing—but the world preferred to forget that men who knew how to heal also knew how to kill.
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