George R. R. Martin Quotes — Page 22

George R. R. Martin

Novelist, Screenwriter

Inspired

“And pray that he is the man I think he is, he finished silently, and not the man I fear he has become.”

Thinking Men Praying

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George R. R. Martin

Novelist, Screenwriter

Sad

“Men are mad and gods are madder, she told the grass, and the grass murmured its agreement.”

Men Mad Agreement

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Lonely

“If I look back I am lost.”

Looks Ifs

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Funny

“his snores sounded like ducks mating.”

Ducks Mating

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Spiritual

“I feel satisfaction at the end of the day when I've written a scene that I really like or when I write a good line of dialogue that I read out to my wife or something like that. But there's also days where it's just bloody agony and I go, 'ugh, this is such crap! Why did I think I had any talent?”

Thinking Writing Agony

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Thoughtful

“Lords are gold and knights steel, but two links can't make a chain. You also need silver and iron and lead, tin and copper and bronze and all the rest, and those are farmers and smiths and merchants and the like. A chain needs all sorts of metals, and a land needs all sorts of people.”

Two Land Knights

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Regretful

“The only game. The game of thrones.”

Games Thrones

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Lonely

“All dwarfs are bastards in their father's eyes”

Eye Father

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Grieving

“I buried him with mine own hands, in a place he showed me once when I was a squire at Storm’s End. No one shall ever find him there to disturb his rest.” He looked at Jaime defiantly. “I will defend King Tommen with all my strength, I swear it. I will give my life for his if need be. But I will never betray Renly, by word or deed. He was the king that should have been. He was the best of them.”

Hands Kings Should Have

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Funny

“Lord Snow wants to take my place now.' He sneered. 'I'd have an easier time teaching a wolf to juggle than you will training this aurochs.' 'I'll take that wager, Ser Alliser', Jon said. 'I'd love to see Ghost juggle.”

Teaching Training Snow

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Regretful

“She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy for power, for honour, for love.”

Real Greed Never Forget

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Philosophical

“From where I sit, battles are hard. I’ve written my share. Sometimes I employ the private’s viewpoint, very up close and personal, dropping the reader right into the middle of the carnage. That’s vivid and visceral, but of necessity chaotic, and it is easy to lose all sense of the battle as a whole. Sometimes I go with the general’s point of view instead, looking down from on high, seeing lines and flanks and reserves. That gives a great sense of the tactics, of how the battle is won or lost, but can easily slide into abstraction.”

Writing Giving Views

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