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
wonder ifs
Lady," she whimpered softly, wondering if she would meet her wolf again when she was dead.
looks lost ifs
If I look back I am lost.
men knowing ifs
Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.
dragons ifs
...if you dance with dragons, you must expect to burn.
lied ifs
Jon lied ... loudly, as if that could make it true.
fighting ifs
How do you fight someone if you can't hit them?
ears said ifs
Why ask for truth," Ser Barristan said softly, "if you close your ears to it?
solitude armor ifs
If he must be alone, he would make solitude his armor.
despair garments ifs
She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear.
ifs
If? The word is when.
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.
book sleep healing
Sleep is good, he said, And books are better.
hate book writing
I hate outlines. I have a broad sense of where the story is going; I know the end, I know the end of the principal characters, and I know the major turning points and events from the books, the climaxes for each book, but I don't necessarily know each twist and turn along the way. That's something I discover in the course of writing and that's what makes writing enjoyable. I think if I outlined comprehensively and stuck to the outline the actual writing would be boring.
changing days few harder looking switch voices ways whenever
Whenever I switch from one character to another, there's always a few days where I really struggle because I'm changing voices and I'm changing ways of looking at the world. I'm not just flicking a switch; it's harder process than that.