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.
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favourite chair and stays as long as it wants.
... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. - George R. R. Martin
A lot of writing takes place in the subconscious, and it's bound to have an effect. - George R. R. Martin
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one. - George R. R. Martin
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
And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things. - George R. R. Martin
As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but also for hate. I wanted to write those kinds of complex character in a fantasy, and not just have all the good people get together to fight the bad guy. - George R. R. Martin
As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen. - George R. R. Martin
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
Boy, there are days where I get up and say 'Where the hell did my talent go? Look at this crap that I'm producing here. This is terrible. Look, I wrote this yesterday. I hate this, I hate this.' - George R. R. Martin
Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?' 'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him. - 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
Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. Reality is plywood and plastic, done up in mud brown and olive drab. Fantasy tastes of habaneros and honey, cinnamon and cloves, rare red meat and wines as sweet as summer. Reality is beans and tofu, and ashes at the end. Reality is the strip malls of Burbank, the smokestacks of Cleveland, a parking garage in Newark. Fantasy is the towers of Minas Tirith, the ancient stones of Gormenghast, the halls of Camelot. Fantasy flies on the wings of Icarus, reality on Southwest Airlines. Why do our dreams become so much smaller when they finally come true? - George R. R. Martin
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