I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.
People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.
You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.
And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things. - George R. R. Martin
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
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. - George R. R. Martin
Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been. - George R. R. Martin
People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up. - George R. R. Martin
The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die. - George R. R. Martin
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
There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings. - George R. R. Martin
When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say. - George R. R. Martin
Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side? - George R. R. Martin
You want people to be eager for your book; the downside is when the people forget the series even exists. - George R. R. Martin
I just think that beautiful people don't have it as hard, you know? They just don't know what rejection's like. That's why super models aren't good actresses, because they don't need anything. If someone is beautiful and she's needy, she's probably had a terrible childhood. - Rob Schneider
People don't ask Andre Agassi, 'You know you're the No. 1 tennis player in the world ... have you thought about polo?' - Rob Schneider
Studio people are idiots. Until they see someone else doing it and make a success of it, they don't open their minds. Most of them are idiots. - Rob Schneider
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