George R. R. Martin
George R. R. Martin
George Raymond Richard Martin, often referred to as GRRM, is an American novelist and short-story writer in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres, a screenwriter, and television producer. He is best known for his international bestselling series of epic fantasy novels, A Song of Ice and Fire, which was later adapted into the HBO dramatic series Game of Thrones...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth20 September 1948
CountryUnited States of America
two historical skins
I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separated at birth.
dark
I have always been a dark writer.
character emotional attachment
I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters.
couple book kids
I had a couple of friends, but I was mostly the kid with his nose in a book.
hate writing i-hate
Don't write outlines; I hate outlines.
summer sports baseball
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.
historical fiction problem
As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen.
powerful fiction certain
All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful.
writing subconscious bounds
A lot of writing takes place in the subconscious, and it's bound to have an effect.
kings mistake fall
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.
men good-man enough
Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.
heart years broken
I worked out of Hollywood for 10 years and I had my heart broken half a dozen times, so I know all the things that can go wrong.
fall trying pilots
I wrote six pilots, none of which ever got picked up. When you stop trying, it then it falls in your lap.
book imagination age
I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I always read books, and I could go to Mars or Middle Earth or the Hyborian age.