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
thousand stills deserve
A thousand deaths would still be less than he deserves.
orcs taxes policy
But Tolkien doesn't ask the question: What was Aragorn's tax policy?
milk-and-honey honey milk
Faith is like porridge. Better with milk and honey.
wise baby kings
Tolkien can say that Aragorn became king and reigned for a hundred years, and he was wise and good. But Tolkien doesn’t ask the question: What was Aragorn’s tax policy? Did he maintain a standing army? What did he do in times of flood and famine? And what about all these orcs? By the end of the war, Sauron is gone but all of the orcs aren’t gone – they’re in the mountains. Did Aragorn pursue a policy of systematic genocide and kill them? Even the little baby orcs, in their little orc cradles?
lips might faces
The eunuch had looked death in the face, so near he might have kissed her on the lips.
awful world honest
I'm honest. It's the world that's awful.
want pages needs
I want you to be afraid to turn the page (and to do that) you need to show right from the beginning that you're playing for keeps.
doubt guilt half
He wished he could relieve himself of his doubts and guilts half as easily.
sex stupid book
Life is very full of sex, or should be. As much as I admire Tolkien - and I do, he was a giant of fantasy and a giant of literature, and I think he wrote a great book that will be read for many years - you do have to wonder where all those Hobbits came from, since you can't imagine Hobbits having sex, can you? Well, sex is an important part of who we are. It drives us, it motivates us, it makes us do sometimes very noble things and it makes us do sometimes incredibly stupid things. Leave it out, and you've got an incomplete world.
pride knights
A hedge knight must hold tight to his pride. Without it, he was no more than a sellsword
writing successful thoughtful
All fiction, if it's successful, is going to appeal to the emotions. Emotion is really what fiction is all about. That's not to say fiction can't be thoughtful, or present some interesting or provocative ideas to make us think. But if you want to present an intellectual argument, nonfiction is a better tool. You can drive a nail with a shoe but a hammer is a better tool for that. But fiction is about emotional resonance, about making us feel things on a primal and visceral level.
night years dragons
And for the first time in hundreds of years, the night came alive with the music of dragons.
secret
Perhaps that is the secret. It is not what we do, so much as why we do it.
dark sky white
The snow drifted down and down, all in ghostly silence, and lay thick and unbroken on the ground. It was a place of whites and blacks and greys. White towers and white snow and white statues, black shadows and black trees, the dark grey sky above. A pure world, Sansa thought. I do not belong here. Yet she stepped out all the same.