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I have idea files of books th...

I have idea files of books that I want to write one of these days, stories I want to write one of these days, but I'll probably never get to them.

George Martin 788 quotes

I can see a scene in my head,...

I can see a scene in my head, and when I try to get it down in words on paper, the words are clunky; the scene is not coming across right. So frustrating. And there are days where it keeps flowing. Open the floodgates, and there it is. Pages and pages coming. Where the hell does this all come from? I don't know.

George Martin 788 quotes

I was a novelist first. But i...

I was a novelist first. But in the mid-'80s, I did work in television for ten years. And yes, that was frequently the reaction to my scripts. People would say, 'You know, George, this is great. We love it, a terrific script, but it would cost five times our budget to shoot this.'

George Martin 788 quotes

I knew that, when writing a b...

I knew that, when writing a book, you're not constrained by a budget. You're not constrained by what you can do, in terms of the special effects technology. You're not limited to any particular running time.

George Martin 788 quotes

Don't write outlines; I hate ...

Don't write outlines; I hate outlines.

George Martin 788 quotes

I prefer to work with grey ch...

I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.

George Martin 788 quotes

I work for two years on a boo...

I work for two years on a book and it comes out and two days later I've got my first e-mail: When is the next one coming out?

George Martin 788 quotes

I'm a huge fan of Tolkien. I ...

I'm a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, and they had a profound effect on me. I'd read other fantasy before, but none of them that I loved like Tolkien.

George Martin 788 quotes

One of the big breakthroughs,...

One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of writing, one of which was, 'You must finish what you write.' I never had any problem with the first one, 'You must write' - I was writing since I was a kid. But I never finished what writing.

George Martin 788 quotes

I have a huge emotional attac...

I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters.

George Martin 788 quotes

Boy, there are days where I g...

Boy, there are days where I get up and say 'Where the hell did my talent go? Look at this crap that I'm producing here. This is terrible. Look, I wrote this yesterday. I hate this, I hate this.'

George Martin 788 quotes

I have done a lot of work in ...

I have done a lot of work in Hollywood myself. I worked in television for roughly 10 years, from the mid-'80s to mid-'90s. And I was on staff at a couple of shows. I did some feature films, including originals and adaptations.

George Martin 788 quotes

I'm one of those writers who ...

I'm one of those writers who say, 'I've enjoy having written.'

George Martin 788 quotes

Nobody is a villain in their ...

Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.

George Martin 788 quotes

I've always preferred writing...

I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giants or elves or dwarves, or whatever they are, they're still human, and the human heart is still in conflict with the self.

George Martin 788 quotes

I try to make the readers fee...

I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care. If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it's a superficial experience isn't it?

George Martin 788 quotes

There are some examples of me...

There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings.

George Martin 788 quotes

You always try to do your own...

You always try to do your own thing. One of the things I wanted to do was to write a book that combines some of the best traits of contemporary fantasy with some of the traits of the historical novel.

George Martin 788 quotes

I never liked Gandalf the Whi...

I never liked Gandalf the White as much as Gandalf the Grey, and I never liked him coming back. I think it would have been an even stronger story if Tolkien had left him dead.

George Martin 788 quotes

I grew up with four T.V. chan...

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.

George Martin 788 quotes

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