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" As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen. "
George R. R. Martin
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" 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. "
George R. R. Martin
Imagination
Desire
World
" I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters. "
George R. R. Martin
Viewpoint
Emotional
Attachment
" Writing is hard. I mean, I sit there and work at it. "
George R. R. Martin
Work
Writing
Hard
" There is magic in my universe, but it's pretty low magic compared to other fantasies. "
George R. R. Martin
Pretty
Universe
Magic
" It's like these ideas, these characters, kind of bubble up inside me, and one day they're not there, and the next day they are there. They're alive, and they're whispering in my head and all that stuff, and I want to write about those things. "
George R. R. Martin
Alive
Me
Ideas
" 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. "
George R. R. Martin
End
More
Believe
" Don't write outlines; I hate outlines. "
George R. R. Martin
Hate
Write
Outlines
" I have always been a dark writer. "
George R. R. Martin
Dark
Always
Been
" I had a couple of friends, but I was mostly the kid with his nose in a book. "
George R. R. Martin
Book
Had
Friends
" The cable makers are the ones who are willing to take risks and do something original and push the envelope some. "
George R. R. Martin
Push
Risks
Original
" 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. "
George R. R. Martin
Back
You
Career
" I watch NFL football on Sundays. I enjoy gaming with friends, meaning role-playing games; I still enjoy going to conventions and traveling. "
George R. R. Martin
Friends
Meaning
Football
" I've said in many interviews that I like my fiction to be unpredictable. I like there to be considerable suspense. "
George R. R. Martin
Like
Unpredictable
Suspense
" 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. "
George R. R. Martin
Look
Tried
Like
" I think in television and film, it's not usually the child's point of view. It's the story of an adult. If there's a child in a drama or an action-adventure movie, they're someone who needs to be saved, someone who needs to be protected, or if they're killed, someone who needs to be avenged. Their character doesn't matter much. "
George R. R. Martin
Think
Story
Child
" I wrote six pilots, none of which ever got picked up. When you stop trying, it then it falls in your lap. "
George R. R. Martin
Your
Up
You
" It's really irritating when you open a book, and 10 pages into it you know that the hero you met on page one or two is gonna come through unscathed, because he's the hero. This is completely unreal, and I don't like it. "
George R. R. Martin
Hero
Book
You
" I tend to write one character at a time. But I don't write the entirety of one character at a time. "
George R. R. Martin
Tend
Write
Character
" There are writers, and I know some of them, who are very disciplined. Who write, like, four pages a day, every day. And it doesn't matter if their dog got run over by a car that day, or they won the Irish sweepstakes. I'm not one of those writers. "
George R. R. Martin
Know
Run
Car
" 'Rome' was one of my favourite shows, and I wish HBO had given it three more seasons 'cause I would have loved to continue watching it. "
George R. R. Martin
Rome
More
Seasons
" I suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic. "
George R. R. Martin
Catholic
You
Agnostic
" When I'm writing from a character's viewpoint, in essence I become that character; I share their thoughts, I see the world through their eyes and try to feel everything they feel. "
George R. R. Martin
Character
Writing
Thoughts
" Whether you're a history buff or a fantasy fan, Druon's epic will keep you turning pages. This was the original game of thrones. If you like 'A Song of Ice and Fire', you will love 'The Accursed Kings'. "
George R. R. Martin
History
Game
Fire
" I've never been good with deadlines. My early novels, I wrote by myself. No one knew I was writing a novel; I didn't have a contract. "
George R. R. Martin
Good
Early
Writing
" 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. "
George R. R. Martin
Death
Moving
Body
" 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? "
George R. R. Martin
Days
Book
First
" I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story. "
George R. R. Martin
Write
Love
Short
" I worked out of Hollywood for 10 years and I had my heart broken half a dozen times, so I know all the things that can go wrong. "
George R. R. Martin
Heart
Hollywood
Know
" I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy. "
George R. R. Martin
Love
I Love
Grew
" You want people to be eager for your book; the downside is when the people forget the series even exists. "
George R. R. Martin
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Your
You