Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.
Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.
You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.
A lot of writing takes place in the subconscious, and it's bound to have an effect. - George R. R. Martin
'Dreamsongs' allows me to show the scope of my writing - with personal commentary that puts the works in context and includes some autobiographical details intended to reveal how each piece came to be, what it represents, and how it has formed, or been informed by, my philosophy of writing. - George R. R. Martin
Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or fantasy or western mystery stories or so-called literary stories. All those things are essentially untrue. But it has to have a truth at the core of it. - George R. R. Martin
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
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 have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters. - George R. R. Martin
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
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 knew that, when writing a book, you're not constrained by a budget. You're not constrained by what you can do, in terms of the special effects technology. You're not limited to any particular running time. - George R. R. Martin
I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains. - George R. R. Martin
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
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
I work for two years on a book and it comes out and two days later I've got my first e-mail: When is the next one coming out? - George R. R. Martin
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