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I do play all the characters, when I write them, one after another. If they actually had to film me, the only one I could play would be Samwell Tarly or Hot Pie.

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George R. R. Martin
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: September 20
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True knights protect the weak.” He snorted. “There are no true knights, no more than there are gods. If you can’t protect yourself, die and get out of the way of those who can. Sharp steel and strong arms rule this world, don’t ever believe any different.” Sansa backed away from him. “You’re awful.” “I’m honest. It’s the world that’s awful.
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Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves?
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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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I have idea files of books that I want to write one of these days, stories I want to write one of these days, but I'll probably never get to them.
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You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat.
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I was just a kid selling monster stories to the kids in the projects, complete with a dramatic reading, making the werewolf sounds. My career was aborted early on because one of my main customers started to have nightmares and his mother came to my mother and my mother shut down my whole business.
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Wisdom oft comes from the mouth of babes.
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Ser Cleos looked like a weasel, fought like a goose, and had the courage of an especially brave ewe.
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Ned was clad in a white linen doublet with the direwolf of Stark on the breast his black wool cloak was fastened at the collar by his silver hand of office. Black and white and grey, all the shades of truth.
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Power resides only where men believe it resides. [...] A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.
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The sea is never weary. I must be as tireless.
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No fight is hopeless till it has been fought.
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I can be humbler than anyone.
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Love is the bane of honor, the death of duty.
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Folly and desperation are ofttimes hard to tell apart.
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I believe that a writer learns from every story he writes, and when you try different things, you learn different lessons. Working with other writers, as in Hollywood or in a shared world series, will also strengthen your skills, by exposing you to new ways of seeing the work, and different approaches to certain creative challenges.
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Sins may be forgiven. Crimes require punishment.
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The best writing advice I had was [in] ‘Heinlein’s Rules for Writers’ by (American science fiction author) Robert A. Heinlein. His first rule is that you must write, and I was already doing that, but his second rule is, ‘You must finish what you write,’ and that had a big impact on me.
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Contempt, thought Tyrion, the universal tongue.
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I have a hole where my heart should be, she thought, and nowhere else to go.
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