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" I've written some standalone novels, but a book series allows fans in. There's much more intense involvement. "
George R. R. Martin
Fans
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" I'm one of those writers who say, 'I've enjoy having written.' "
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" Unfortunately in television, for whatever reason, fantasy became thought of as a kids' genre. "
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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. "
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" You want people to be eager for your book; the downside is when the people forget the series even exists. "
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" I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings. "
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" 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. "
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" I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white. "
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" The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and The Yiddish Policemen's Union. He's a writer who's determined to break down genre barriers. He's done amazing things. "
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" The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud between Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James. James won, and it split literature into two streams. But it's a totally false dichotomy. "
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" You can have the power to destroy, but it doesn't give you the power to reform, or improve, or build. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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You
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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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" 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. "
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" I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains. "
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" The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy. "
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" 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. "
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" I have always been a dark writer. "
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" There has to be a level of joy of what you're doing. "
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" 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. "
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" I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters. "
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" The cable makers are the ones who are willing to take risks and do something original and push the envelope some. "
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" 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. "
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" Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire', as historical fiction about history that never happened, flavoured with a dash of sorcery and spiced with dragons. I take that as a compliment. "
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" 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. "
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Heart
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" 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. "
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" Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been. "
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" I watch NFL football on Sundays. I enjoy gaming with friends, meaning role-playing games; I still enjoy going to conventions and traveling. "
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