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
men despised has-beens
I have been despised by better men than you.
sweet heart faces
A sweet face oft hides a sinner's heart.
young
I was always intensely Romantic, even when I was too young to understand what that meant.
fighting snow battle
We will fight a battle, and then we will rest. Alive or dead, we'll rest." - Jon Snow
book cutting together
[as for evolution]....cutting out the sections [on the subject] is preferrable if the portions are not thick enough to cause damage to the spine of the book as it is opened and closed in normal use. When the sections needing correction are too thick, paste the pages together being careful not to smear portions of the book not intended for correction.
I’d be anonymous. That’s what I’d do differently.
fighting men loyal
A man who fights for coin is loyal only to his purse.
struggle character writing
There’s an old writing rule that says ‘Don’t have two character names start with the same letter’, but I knew at the beginning that I was going to have more than 26 characters, so I was in trouble there. Ultimately it comes down to what sounds right. And I struggle with that, finding the right name for a character. If I can’t find the right name I don’t know who the character is and I can’t proceed.
dream sleep needs
I need to sleep, but fear to dream.
names useless buttons
I do know what’s been useless to me is the online fantasy name generators. I’ve tried those a few times, and they say, ‘Just hit this button and we’ll generate 50 fantasy names,’ and they all turn out to be ‘Grisknuckle’.
men
Men see what they expect to see.
men light wrong-things
I knew a man once who told me that I smiled at the wrong things." "Do you? "Only by the light of those who smile at nothing.
men winter-is-coming dies
Valar Morghulis- All men must die
light two shadow
The Lord of Light in his wisdom made us male and female, two parts of a greater whole. In our joining there is power. Power to make life. Power to make light. Power to cast shadows.