Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I have always been a dark writer. "
George R. R. Martin
Dark
Always
Been
Related Quotes:
" 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 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've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giants or elves or dwarves, or whatever they are, they're still human, and the human heart is still in conflict with the self. "
George R. R. Martin
Heart
Conflict
Always
" The vast majority of writers out there, they finish their books, and no one cares whether their book is late or ever comes out at all. And then it comes out, and two reviews are published, and it sells 12 copies. "
George R. R. Martin
Late
Finish
Books
" I spent a whole summer working on what proved to be 'A Game of Thrones'. "
George R. R. Martin
Whole
Spent
Game
" I'm a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, and they had a profound effect on me. I'd read other fantasy before, but none of them that I loved like Tolkien. "
George R. R. Martin
Loved
Fantasy
Me
" Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories. "
George R. R. Martin
Our
Story
Heroes
" I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces for fanzines, and I've written for Hollywood. "
George R. R. Martin
Short
Story
Hollywood
" 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 know some writers can write on the road, but I'm not one of them. "
George R. R. Martin
Write
Writers
Know
" 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
" Writing is hard. I mean, I sit there and work at it. "
George R. R. Martin
Work
Writing
Hard
" The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy. "
George R. R. Martin
Success
Modern
Books
" When I am writing best, I really am lost in my world. I lose track of the outside world. I have a difficult time balancing between my real world and the artificial world. "
George R. R. Martin
Writing
Best
I Am
" 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.' "
George R. R. Martin
Boy
Look
Hell
" 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. "
George R. R. Martin
Work
Story
Creative
" Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're starting fantasy, don't start with a nine-book series. "
George R. R. Martin
Short
Up
You
" I've written some standalone novels, but a book series allows fans in. There's much more intense involvement. "
George R. R. Martin
Fans
Intense
Book
" I've never been a fast writer. "
George R. R. Martin
Writer
Fast
Been
" 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 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. "
George R. R. Martin
Enough
Football
Feeling
" I think that, in all of my time, I got just one fan letter, from an NFL fullback named Darian Barnes. NFL players might not have enough time for my books. "
George R. R. Martin
Think
Enough
NFL
" There was part of me that wanted to see the world and travel to distant places, but I could only do it in my imagination, so I read ferociously and imagined things. "
George R. R. Martin
Imagination
World
Travel
" 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
" There has to be a level of joy of what you're doing. "
George R. R. Martin
Joy
You
Level
" 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. "
George R. R. Martin
You
Easy
Way
" 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. "
George R. R. Martin
Think
Literature
Like
" 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
" Don't write outlines; I hate outlines. "
George R. R. Martin
Hate
Write
Outlines
" 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
Know
Problem
You