Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.
Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.
I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters. - George R. R. Martin
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
I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care. If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it's a superficial experience isn't it? - George R. R. Martin
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. - George R. R. Martin
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
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
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
I lost that excitement I had when I first started out. It was all about the need to just get a job, and so I found the joy again when I was writing Deuce Bigelow. I was laughing so hard and along with my writing partner at the time, simply laughing until we cried. - Rob Schneider
I want to make films that make people laugh hard, and I am not afraid to walk away from this business tomorrow. - Rob Schneider
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