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
Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you. - George R. R. Martin
Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories. - George R. R. Martin
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
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
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
The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real than real ... for a moment at least ... that long magic moment before we wake. - 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 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
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
Unfortunately in television, for whatever reason, fantasy became thought of as a kids' genre. - George R. R. Martin
When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives. - 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 can have the power to destroy, but it doesn't give you the power to reform, or improve, or build. - George R. R. Martin
Disney would have ruined this movie and, please, say that in the articles. They would have ruined this picture because they don't know how to make, and don't want to make, funny movies for adults. - Rob Schneider
First of all, weren't all the best beatings in the trailer for 'The Passion of the Christ'? I hate when the trailer gives away all the best stuff. - Rob Schneider
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