Quotes by George R. R. Martin

About George R. R. Martin:

George Raymond Richard Martin 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 A Song of Ice and Fire, his international bestselling series of epic fantasy novels that HBO adapted for its dramatic series Game of Thrones.
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I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces for fanzines, and I've written for Hollywood.

George R. R. Martin

There has to be a level of joy of what you're doing.

George R. R. Martin

I've said in many interviews that I like my fiction to be unpredictable. I like there to be considerable suspense.

George R. R. Martin

When I'm writing from a character's viewpoint, in essence I become that character; I share their thoughts, I see the world through their eyes and try to feel everything they feel.

George R. R. Martin

Unfortunately in television, for whatever reason, fantasy became thought of as a kids' genre.

George R. R. Martin

I watch NFL football on Sundays. I enjoy gaming with friends, meaning role-playing games; I still enjoy going to conventions and traveling.

George R. R. Martin

There is magic in my universe, but it's pretty low magic compared to other fantasies.

George R. R. Martin

I have always been a dark writer.

George R. R. Martin

I spent a whole summer working on what proved to be 'A Game of Thrones'.

George R. R. Martin

The vast majority of writers out there, they finish their books, and no one cares whether their book is late or ever comes out at all. And then it comes out, and two reviews are published, and it sells 12 copies.

George R. R. Martin

I worked out of Hollywood for 10 years and I had my heart broken half a dozen times, so I know all the things that can go wrong.

George R. R. Martin

I had a couple of friends, but I was mostly the kid with his nose in a book.

George R. R. Martin

The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud between Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James. James won, and it split literature into two streams. But it's a totally false dichotomy.

George R. R. Martin

I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separated at birth.

George R. R. Martin

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

George R. R. Martin

I wrote six pilots, none of which ever got picked up. When you stop trying, it then it falls in your lap.

George R. R. Martin

I've written some standalone novels, but a book series allows fans in. There's much more intense involvement.

George R. R. Martin

I've never been a fast writer.

George R. R. Martin

The cable makers are the ones who are willing to take risks and do something original and push the envelope some.

George R. R. Martin

It's like these ideas, these characters, kind of bubble up inside me, and one day they're not there, and the next day they are there. They're alive, and they're whispering in my head and all that stuff, and I want to write about those things.

George R. R. Martin

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 page...

George R. R. Martin

Author Bio

  • NameGeorge R. R. Martin
  • DescriptionAmerican writer, screenwriter and television producer
  • AliasesGRRM; George Raymond Richard Martin
  • BornSeptember 20, 1948
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionScreenwriter; Writer; Television Producer; Novelist; Playwright; Blogger
  • WorksA Song Of Ice And Fire
  • AwardsNebula Award