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All Quotes by author - George R. R. Martin
" All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful. "
Truth
Powerful
Fiction
" A lot of writing takes place in the subconscious, and it's bound to have an effect. "
Place
Effect
Subconscious
" An awful lot of fantasy, and even some great fantasy, falls into the mistake of assuming that a good man will be a good king, that all that is necessary is to be a decent human being and when you're king everything will go swimmingly. "
Good
You
Mistake
" As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but also for hate. I wanted to write those kinds of complex character in a fantasy, and not just have all the good people get together to fight the bad guy. "
Hate
Character
Great
" As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen. "
Know
Problem
You
" Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne, N.J. "
Believe
Baseball
Sports
" Boy, there are days where I get up and say 'Where the hell did my talent go? Look at this crap that I'm producing here. This is terrible. Look, I wrote this yesterday. I hate this, I hate this.' "
Boy
Look
Hell
" Don't write outlines; I hate outlines. "
Hate
Write
Outlines
" 'Dreamsongs' allows me to show the scope of my writing - with personal commentary that puts the works in context and includes some autobiographical details intended to reveal how each piece came to be, what it represents, and how it has formed, or been informed by, my philosophy of writing. "
Me
Writing
Show
" Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or fantasy or western mystery stories or so-called literary stories. All those things are essentially untrue. But it has to have a truth at the core of it. "
Science
People
Mystery
" 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. "
Work
Story
Creative
" I can see a scene in my head, and when I try to get it down in words on paper, the words are clunky; the scene is not coming across right. So frustrating. And there are days where it keeps flowing. Open the floodgates, and there it is. Pages and pages coming. Where the hell does this all come from? I don't know. "
I Can
Down
Words
" I do get invitations all of the time to play actual fantasy football, by the way, but I get the feeling that I'd like it too much. I have enough demands on my time. My fans would kill me. "
Enough
Football
Feeling
" I don't know if I have any particular views about women in positions of power, though I do think it's more difficult for women, particularly in a Medieval setting. They have the additional problem that they're a woman and people don't want them in a position of power in an essentially patriarchal society. "
People
Society
Power
" I find religion and spirituality fascinating. I would like to believe this isn't the end and there's something more, but I can't convince the rational part of me that that makes any sense whatsoever. "
End
More
Believe
" 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. "
Page
War
Battle
" If you go all the way back, I've always written science-fiction, I've always written fantasy, I've always written horror stories and monster stories, right from the beginning of my career. I've always moved back and forth between the genres. I don't really recognise that there's a significant difference between them in some senses. "
Back
You
Career
" If you're going to write about war, which my books are about, wars are nasty things. I think it's sort of a cheap, easy way out to write a war story in which no one ultimately dies. "
You
Easy
Way
" I grew up with four T.V. channels. If you missed a show, you missed it. You gotta wait a week for the next one. I'd mail-order books: take a quarter, get an envelope, send off for it and wait until it arrived. I grew up waiting for things. "
You
Waiting
Week
" I had a couple of friends, but I was mostly the kid with his nose in a book. "
Book
Had
Friends
" 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. "
Look
Tried
Like
" I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I always read books, and I could go to Mars or Middle Earth or the Hyborian age. "
Imagination
Desire
World
" I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters. "
Viewpoint
Emotional
Attachment
" I have always been a dark writer. "
Dark
Always
Been
" I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separated at birth. "
Birth
Always
Fantasy
" I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings. "
Endings
Distrust
Happy
" I have done a lot of work in Hollywood myself. I worked in television for roughly 10 years, from the mid-'80s to mid-'90s. And I was on staff at a couple of shows. I did some feature films, including originals and adaptations. "
Done
Television
Work
" I have files, I have computer files and, you know, files on paper. But most of it is really in my head. So God help me if anything ever happens to my head! "
God
Help
Head
" 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. "
Days
Stories
Want
" I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20 years or so and write another dozen novels, probably some sort of imaginative literature... Never again another seven-volume saga. "
Think
Literature
Like
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