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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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George R. R. Martin
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: September 20
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Gods be good, why would any man ever want to be king? When everyone was shouting King in the North, King in the North, I told myself ... swore to myself ... that I would be a good king, as honorable as Father, strong, just, loyal to my friends and brave when I faced my enemies ... now I can't even tell one from the other.
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Power is a trick. It lies where we believe it lies.
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This world is twisted beyond hope, when lowborn smugglers must vouch for the honor of kings.
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A frightened man is a beaten man.
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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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There are ghosts everywhere, Ser Jorah said softly. We carry them with us wherever we go.
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A thousand deaths would still be less than he deserves.
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Nothing burns like the cold.
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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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What was it Catelyn Stark had called them, that night at Bitterbridge? The knights of summer. And now it was autumn and they were falling like leaves.
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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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One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable.
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Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?' 'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.
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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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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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They say night's beauties fade at dawn, and the children of wine are oft disowned in the morning light.
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We look up at the same stars and see such different things. - Jon Snow
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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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The stone is strong. Bran told himself, the roots of the trees go deep, and under the ground the Kings of Winter sit their thrones. So long as those remained, Winterfell remained. It was not dead, just broken. Like me, he thought. I'm not dead either.
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