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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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 R. R. Martin

I write from this tight third-person viewpoint, where each chapter is seen through the eyes of one individual character. When I'm writing that character, I become that character and identify with that character.

George R. R. Martin

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 R. R. Martin

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 R. R. Martin

I know some writers can write on the road, but I'm not one of them.

George R. R. Martin

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

George R. R. Martin

Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're starting fantasy, don't start with a nine-book series.

George R. R. Martin

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 R. R. Martin

I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20 years or so and write another dozen novels, probably some sort of imaginative literature... Never again another seven-volume saga.

George R. R. Martin

'Rome' was one of my favourite shows, and I wish HBO had given it three more seasons 'cause I would have loved to continue watching it.

George R. R. Martin

You want people to be eager for your book; the downside is when the people forget the series even exists.

George R. R. Martin

'Dreamsongs' allows me to show the scope of my writing - with personal commentary that puts the works in context and includes some autobiographical details intended to reveal how each piece came to be, what it represents, and how it has formed, or be...

George R. R. Martin

If you go all the way back, I've always written science-fiction, I've always written fantasy, I've always written horror stories and monster stories, right from the beginning of my career. I've always moved back and forth between the genres. I don't ...

George R. R. Martin

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.

George R. R. Martin

Nothing bores me more than books where you read two pages and you know exactly how it's going to come out. I want twists and turns that surprise me, characters that have a difficult time and that I don't know if they're going to live or die.

George R. R. Martin

I do get invitations all of the time to play actual fantasy football, by the way, but I get the feeling that I'd like it too much. I have enough demands on my time. My fans would kill me.

George R. R. Martin

I think that, in all of my time, I got just one fan letter, from an NFL fullback named Darian Barnes. NFL players might not have enough time for my books.

George R. R. Martin

I tend to write one character at a time. But I don't write the entirety of one character at a time.

George R. R. Martin

All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful.

George R. R. Martin

I don't know if I have any particular views about women in positions of power, though I do think it's more difficult for women, particularly in a Medieval setting. They have the additional problem that they're a woman and people don't want them in a ...

George R. R. Martin

You can have the power to destroy, but it doesn't give you the power to reform, or improve, or build.

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