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" One of the great things about books is you can afford to do anything. "
George R. R. Martin
You
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Great
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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. "
George R. R. Martin
Work
Story
Creative
" I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters. "
George R. R. Martin
Viewpoint
Emotional
Attachment
" All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful. "
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Truth
Powerful
Fiction
" 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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Know
Problem
You
" Unfortunately in television, for whatever reason, fantasy became thought of as a kids' genre. "
George R. R. Martin
Thought
Fantasy
Reason
" 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 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'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 is magic in my universe, but it's pretty low magic compared to other fantasies. "
George R. R. Martin
Pretty
Universe
Magic
" 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
" '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
" 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 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
" 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. "
George R. R. Martin
Done
Television
Work
" 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 have always been a dark writer. "
George R. R. Martin
Dark
Always
Been
" I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings. "
George R. R. Martin
Endings
Distrust
Happy
" 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
" I know some writers can write on the road, but I'm not one of them. "
George R. R. Martin
Write
Writers
Know
" One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of writing, one of which was, 'You must finish what you write.' I never had any problem with the first one, 'You must write' - I was writing since I was a kid. But I never finished what writing. "
George R. R. Martin
Problem
Writing
Think
" I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy. "
George R. R. Martin
Love
I Love
Grew
" I spent a whole summer working on what proved to be 'A Game of Thrones'. "
George R. R. Martin
Whole
Spent
Game
" I'm one of those writers who say, 'I've enjoy having written.' "
George R. R. Martin
Enjoy
Having
Say
" 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
" 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
" One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable. "
George R. R. Martin
Books
Well
Things
" 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. "
George R. R. Martin
You
Waiting
Week
" Writing is hard. I mean, I sit there and work at it. "
George R. R. Martin
Work
Writing
Hard
" 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. "
George R. R. Martin
History
Fantasy
Compliment
" 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