Quote

Tolkien made the wrong choice when he brought Gandalf back. Screw Gandalf. He had a great death and the characters should have had to go on without him.

George R. R. Martin

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

George R. R. Martin
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: September 20
Blogger
Contributing Editor
Film Producer
Novelist
Playwright
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Television Producer
Writer
Bayonne
New Jersey
George Raymond Richard Martin
GRRM
George R.R. Martin
George Raymond Martin
Wrong
Death
Tolkien
Character
Screw
Back
Screws
Without
Brought
Great
Characters
Made
Choice
Choices

More quotes by George R. R. Martin

Image
Sacrifice is never easy or it is no true sacrifice. - Stannis
George R. R. Martin
Image
The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.
George R. R. Martin
Image
If I wanted to honor you, I´d let you retire. I am planing to make you run the kingdom and fight the wars while I eat and drink
George R. R. Martin
Image
All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful.
George R. R. Martin
Image
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.
George R. R. Martin
Image
Jon:'What are you doing up there? Why aren't you at the feast?' Tyrion: 'Too hot, too noisy, and I'd drunk too much wine', the dwarf told him. 'I learned long ago that it is considered rude to vomit on your brother.
George R. R. Martin
Image
Why should death make a man truthful, or even clever? The dead are likely dull fellows, full of tedious complaints - the ground's too cold, my gravestone should be larger, why does he get more worms than I do.
George R. R. Martin
Image
The snow drifted down and down, all in ghostly silence, and lay thick and unbroken on the ground. It was a place of whites and blacks and greys. White towers and white snow and white statues, black shadows and black trees, the dark grey sky above. A pure world, Sansa thought. I do not belong here. Yet she stepped out all the same.
George R. R. Martin
Image
You could make a poultice out of mud to cool a fever. You could plant seeds in mud and grow a crop to feed your children. Mud would nourish you, where fire would only consume you, but fools and children and young girls would choose fire every time.
George R. R. Martin
Image
Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.
George R. R. Martin
Image
What would a Frey know of honor? - Sir Davos Seaworth
George R. R. Martin
Image
No one who wears a crown is ever safe.
George R. R. Martin
Image
You were made to be kissed, often and well.
George R. R. Martin
Image
I will teach them what it means to put a lion in a cage, Cersei thought.
George R. R. Martin
Image
The city? Tyrion was lost. What city would that be? King's Landing. I am sending you to court. It was the last thing Tyrion Lannister would ever have anticipated. He reached for his wine, considered for a moment as he sipped. And what am I to do there? Rule, his father said curtly.
George R. R. Martin
Image
If he must be alone, he would make solitude his armor.
George R. R. Martin
Image
Kind? How boring that would be. I aspire to be wicked.
George R. R. Martin
Image
Be careful you don't cut yourself. The edges are sharp enough to shave with.' 'Girls don't shave', Arya said. 'Maybe they should. Have you ever seen the septa's legs?
George R. R. Martin
Image
History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.
George R. R. Martin
Image
There are no happy endings.
George R. R. Martin