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
daughter kings clever
The gods made the earth for all men t' share. Only when the kings come with their crowns and steel swords, they claimed it was all theirs. "My trees," they said, "you can't eat them apples. My stream, you can't fish here. My wood, you're not t' hunt. My earth, my water, my castle, my daughter, keep your hands away or I'll chop 'em off, but maybe if you kneel t' me I'll let you have a sniff." You call us thieves, but at least a thief has t' be brave and clever and quick. A kneeler only has t' kneel.
wall believe men
Power resides only where men believe it resides. [...] A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.
kings names islands
Bear Island knows no king but the King in the North, whose name is STARK.
taken heart writing
I've always taken that as my guiding principle and the rest is just set dressing. You can have dragons in it, or aliens and starships, or a western about a gunslinger, or even literary fiction, and ultimately you're still writing about the human heart in conflict with itself.
wall drunk wonder
I wonder what the High Septon would have to say about the sanctity of oaths sworn while dead drunk, chained to a wall, with a sword pressed to your chest?
wine great-wine best-wine
Wine makes all things possible.
leadership kings men
Man wants to be the king o' the rabbits, he best wear a pair o' floppy ears.
old-friends stories used
Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.
flavor sauce fool
Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence.
flames shadow casts
The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.
graves clash-of-kings
He who hurries through life hurries to his grave.
shoes trying nails
There’s part of me that loves words. But sometimes it feels like you’re trying to drive nails with your shoe.
happy-endings distrust conventional
I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.
winter cold cool-weather
Nothing burns like the cold.