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" I wanted to write a big novel, something epic in scale. "
George R. R. Martin
Epic
Something
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" 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. "
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" Many writers will get a contract by selling chapters and outlines or something like that. I wrote the entire novel, and when it was all finished, I would give it to my agent and say, 'Well, here's a novel; sell it if you can.' And they would do that, and it was good because I never had anyone looking over my shoulder. "
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" I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separated at birth. "
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" Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories. "
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" Don't write outlines; I hate outlines. "
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" I was a novelist first. But in the mid-'80s, I did work in television for ten years. And yes, that was frequently the reaction to my scripts. People would say, 'You know, George, this is great. We love it, a terrific script, but it would cost five times our budget to shoot this.' "
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" 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
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NFL
" With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the special effects guy and the lighting technician: I'm all of that. So if it's good or bad, it's all up to me. "
George R. R. Martin
Bad
Book
Good
" 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. "
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Hollywood
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" 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
" 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. "
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Run
Car
" 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
" A lot of writing takes place in the subconscious, and it's bound to have an effect. "
George R. R. Martin
Place
Effect
Subconscious
" You want people to be eager for your book; the downside is when the people forget the series even exists. "
George R. R. Martin
Book
Your
You
" The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems like real life is flickering by and you're hardly a part of it. You remember the events in your books better than you remember the events that actually took place when you were writing them. "
George R. R. Martin
Remember
Yourself
Writing
" 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
" Nothing bores me more than books where you read two pages and you know exactly how it's going to come out. I want twists and turns that surprise me, characters that have a difficult time and that I don't know if they're going to live or die. "
George R. R. Martin
You
Know
Live
" There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings. "
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Who
Good
" As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen. "
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Problem
You
" 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. "
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Imagination
Desire
World
" I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters. "
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Viewpoint
Emotional
Attachment
" One of the great things about books is you can afford to do anything. "
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Books
Great
" 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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Want
" In my 10 years that I spent out in TV and film, I had my shares of frustrations and annoyances and disappointments, but also I think it was, in the long run, it was very good for me in a whole bunch of ways. "
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" 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. "
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Page
War
Battle
" There is magic in my universe, but it's pretty low magic compared to other fantasies. "
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Universe
Magic
" I had a couple of friends, but I was mostly the kid with his nose in a book. "
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Book
Had
Friends
" I tend to write one character at a time. But I don't write the entirety of one character at a time. "
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Tend
Write
Character
" 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. "
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" I knew that, when writing a book, you're not constrained by a budget. You're not constrained by what you can do, in terms of the special effects technology. You're not limited to any particular running time. "
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