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
gratitude debt pay
I heard a Lannister always pays his debts." "Oh, every penny....but never a groat more. You'll get the meal you bargained for, but it won't be sauced with gratitude, and in the end it will not nourish you.
punishment may sin
Sins may be forgiven. Crimes require punishment.
eye past night
I dreamed... in the black of night a man asks all the questions he dare not ask by daylight. For me, the past years, only one question has remained. Why would the gods take my eyes and my strength, yet condemn me to linger on so long, frozen and forgotten? What use could they have for an old done man like me? ... I remember, Sam. I still remember. Remember what? Dragons, Aemon whispered.
giving-up stupid giving
Too stupid to learn and too stupid to give up.
dragons ifs
...if you dance with dragons, you must expect to burn.
world littles enough
If you would wed, wed. If not, take your pleasure where you find it. There's little enough of it in this world." - Oberyn
fire cold preserves
Fire consumes, but cold preserves.
hate night names
She had killed him with a whisper, and she would kill two more before she was through. I’m the ghost in Harrenhal, she thought. And that night, there was one less name to hate.
kings wall mean
Now I understand why King Stannis let the wildlings through the Wall. He means for us to eat them.
eye men swings
The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. Look her in the eyes before you kill her. See her tears, hear her last words. You owe her that much at least." - Eddard Stark
dream morning writing
My dreams are the usual incoherent nonsense. Like most writers, at some point in my career I thought, well, I have these great dreams but I always forget them in the morning so I’ll leave a pad on my bedside table so I can write it down, and then you have some incredible dream and you write it down and the next morning you wake up and you’ve written ‘purple socks’.
writing opportunity class
I was a journalism major, and I would take creative writing classes as part of that, but I would also look for opportunities to write stories for some of my other classes. So for my course in Scandinavian history, I asked if I could write historical fiction instead of term papers. Sometimes they’d say yes.
night vex steps
There are too many steps in this castle, and it seems to me they add a few every night, just to vex me" - Maester Cressen
daenerys targaryens madness
Is it so far from madness to wisdom?" - Daenerys Targaryen