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
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.
agent anyone chapters contract entire good outlines writers wrote
Many writers will get a contract by selling chapters and outlines or something like that. I wrote the entire novel, and when it was all finished, I would give it to my agent and say, 'Well, here's a novel; sell it if you can.' And they would do that, and it was good because I never had anyone looking over my shoulder.
four gotta grew missed next send until
I grew up with four T.V. channels. If you missed a show, you missed it. You gotta wait a week for the next one. I'd mail-order books: take a quarter, get an envelope, send off for it and wait until it arrived. I grew up waiting for things.
brother men tree
On the gallows tree, all men are brothers.
grief tears guilt
Anger was better than tears, better than grief, better than guilt.
voice may speak
One voice may speak you false, but in many there is always truth to be found.
friendship inspiring loneliness
When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.
fall healing flight
Every flight begins with a fall.
moving men want
When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.
wine lannisters belly
Everything's better with some wine in the belly.
sleep night giving
Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night.
summer soon-enough childhood
Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.
hero winning monsters
There are no heroes...in life, the monsters win.
old-friends stories used
Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.