George R. R. Martin Quotes

782 quotes · Novelist, Screenwriter

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George R. R. Martin Quotes

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George R. R. Martin

Novelist, Screenwriter

Melancholic

“We were king’s men, knights, and heroes . . . but some knights are dark and full of terror, my lady. War makes monsters of us all.” “Are you saying you are monsters?” “I am saying we are human. You are not the only one with wounds, Lady Brienne”

War Kings Hero

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George R. R. Martin

Novelist, Screenwriter

Funny

“Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you”

Way Moving Purpose

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Funny

“Everything's better with some wine in the belly.”

Wine Belly

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Melancholic

“He who hurries through life hurries to his grave.”

Graves Clash Of Kings

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Grieving

“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?”

Book Character Grieving

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Wise

“Ten years from now, no one is going to care how quickly the books came out. The only thing that will matter, the only thing anyone will remember, is how good they were. That's my main concern, and always will be.”

Years Book Care

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Melancholic

“Men have scars, women mysteries.”

Men Mystery

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Courageous

“On the gallows tree, all men are brothers.”

Men Brother

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Nostalgic

“Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.”

Stories Used Old Friends

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Melancholic

“I rose too high, loved too hard, dared too much. I tried to grasp a star, overreached, and fell.”

Stars Too Much Rose

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Melancholic

“No one will be alive by the last book. In fact, they all die in the fifth. The sixth book will be just a thousand-page description of snow blowing across the graves.”

Book Alive Snow

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Creative

“The best writing advice I had was [in] ‘Heinlein’s Rules for Writers’ by (American science fiction author) Robert A. Heinlein. His first rule is that you must write, and I was already doing that, but his second rule is, ‘You must finish what you write,’ and that had a big impact on me.”

Writing Advice Impact

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