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" There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings. "
George R. R. Martin
Terrible
Who
Good
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" 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
" 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. "
George R. R. Martin
Run
Me
Long
" 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 suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic. "
George R. R. Martin
Catholic
You
Agnostic
" Don't write outlines; I hate outlines. "
George R. R. Martin
Hate
Write
Outlines
" 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
" Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne, N.J. "
George R. R. Martin
Believe
Baseball
Sports
" 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. "
George R. R. Martin
Days
Stories
Want
" 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
" 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
" 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
" An awful lot of fantasy, and even some great fantasy, falls into the mistake of assuming that a good man will be a good king, that all that is necessary is to be a decent human being and when you're king everything will go swimmingly. "
George R. R. Martin
Good
You
Mistake
" 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'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
" 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
" 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. "
George R. R. Martin
I Can
Down
Words
" 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 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" I don't know if I have any particular views about women in positions of power, though I do think it's more difficult for women, particularly in a Medieval setting. They have the additional problem that they're a woman and people don't want them in a position of power in an essentially patriarchal society. "
George R. R. Martin
People
Society
Power
" 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
" Whenever I switch from one character to another, there's always a few days where I really struggle because I'm changing voices and I'm changing ways of looking at the world. I'm not just flicking a switch; it's harder process than that. "
George R. R. Martin
Struggle
World
Character
" One of the great things about books is you can afford to do anything. "
George R. R. Martin
You
Books
Great
" 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 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 love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy. "
George R. R. Martin
Love
I Love
Grew