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
football sunday games
I watch NFL football on Sundays. I enjoy gaming with friends, meaning role-playing games; I still enjoy going to conventions and traveling.
writing epic bigs
I wanted to write a big novel, something epic in scale.
kings mistake fall
An awful lot of fantasy, and even some great fantasy, falls into the mistake of assuming that a good man will be a good king, that all that is necessary is to be a decent human being and when you're king everything will go swimmingly.
writing subconscious bounds
A lot of writing takes place in the subconscious, and it's bound to have an effect.
historical fiction problem
As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen.
summer sports baseball
Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne, N.J.
hate writing i-hate
Don't write outlines; I hate outlines.
couple book kids
I had a couple of friends, but I was mostly the kid with his nose in a book.
dark
I have always been a dark writer.
two historical skins
I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separated at birth.
writing want stories
I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story.
atheist catholic agnostic
I suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic.
looks flags ships
I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China and Liberia and England and Denmark and whatever, and I learned all the different flags, and I tried to imagine what it would be like to be voyaging on some of these ships.
kings father law
So many vows … they make you swear and swear. Defend the king. Obey the king. Keep his secrets. Do his bidding. Your life for his. But obey your father. Love your sister. Protect the innocent. Defend the weak. Respect the gods. Obey the laws. It’s too much. No matter what you do, you’re forsaking one vow or another.