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
real book writing
The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems like real life is flickering by and you're hardly a part of it. You remember the events in your books better than you remember the events that actually took place when you were writing them.
lying eye heart
The heart lies and the head plays tricks on us, but the eyes see true. Look with your eyes. Hear with your ears. Taste with your mouth. Smell with your nose. Feel with your skin. Then comes the thinking, afterward, and in a way knowing the truth.
men knives giving
Give me a good sharp knife and a good sharp cheese and I’m a happy man.
leadership kings men
Man wants to be the king o' the rabbits, he best wear a pair o' floppy ears.
shoes trying nails
There’s part of me that loves words. But sometimes it feels like you’re trying to drive nails with your shoe.
men scar mystery
Men have scars, women mysteries.
heartbreak betrayal soul
Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.
fighting cold
Nothing burns like the cold. But only for a while. Then it gets inside you and starts to fill you up, and after a while you don't have the strength to fight it.
fear men losing
The man who fears losing has already lost.
memories men sea
Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know of the days to come.
happy-endings distrust conventional
I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.
writing impact advice
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.
hero character long
I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains.
needs
We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.