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Sure. Some of the reviews have been very flattering, but the series is not finished yet. The end needs to be as strong as the beginning.

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George R. R. Martin
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: September 20
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Even the sky was grey. Grey and grey and greyer. The whole world grey, everywhere you look, everything grey except the eyes of the bride. The eyes of the bride were brown. Big and brown and full of fear.
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My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.
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The wildlings seemed to think Ygritte a great beauty because of her hair red hair was rare among the free folk, and those who had it were said to be kissed by fire, which was supposed to be lucky.
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There are too many steps in this castle, and it seems to me they add a few every night, just to vex me - Maester Cressen
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...spend my time warring and whoring, that's what I was made for.
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Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. “Egg?” he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. “Egg, I dreamed that I was old.
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It was a cruel fate, Yet not so cruel as Mago's will be. I promise you that, by the old gods and the new, by the lamb god and the horse god and every god that lives. I swear by the Mother of Mountains and the Womb of the World. Before I am done with them, Mago and Ko Jhaqo will plead for the mercy they showed Eroeh.
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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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It is being common-born that is dangerous, when the great lords play their game of thrones.
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I had these cheap alien toys and I made up stories for them. They were space pirates. They didn’t have names so I made up names. These were the first stories I wrote. Even as a little kid I was thinking about torture.
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His dagger was out, poised at her throat. “Sing, little bird. Sing for your little life.
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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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The Gods give with one hand and take with the other.
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I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story.
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When your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet. Elsewise no man will ever bend the knee to you
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Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.
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I like grey characters fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains.
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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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Folly and desperation are ofttimes hard to tell apart.
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She might have wept then, had not the sky begun to do it for her.
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