George R.R. Martin, the author/master of torture behind the book series "A Song of Ice and Fire", is a pretty quotable guy. Not a huge surprise considering his epic book series has spawned the wildly popular TV show "Game of Thrones" (which is massively quotable in its own right).
The list of George R.R. Martin quotes includes his views on writing, sex and violence, and the TV show inspired by his books. George R.R. Martin, prior to embarking on the task of writing his seven volume fantasy book series, was a writer in Hollywood who penned episodes of "Beauty and the Beast" and "The Twilight Zone". Here you'll find his thoughts on writing for TV, life, reading, and even some funny George R.R. Martin quotes.
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Historical Fiction
"As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen."
The Future
"Ten years from now, no one is going to care how quickly the books came out. The only thing that will matter, the only thing anyone will remember, is how good they were. That's my main concern, and always will be."
Coming Back
"My characters who come back from death are worse for wear. In some ways, they're not even the same characters anymore. The body may be moving, but some aspect of the spirit is changed or transformed, and they've lost something."
Attachment
"I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care. If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it's a superficial experience isn't it?"
The Man Who Reads
"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one."
Stupid Gandalf
"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."
The End
"I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings."
Mission Accomplished
"If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scary thing. And I want my readers to feel that fear as they turn the page."
Next.
"I work for two years on a book and it comes out and two days later I've got my first e-mail: When is the next one coming out?"
Fiction
"All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful."