Will Martin
Will Martin
Will Martinis a New Zealand-born classical crossover singer...
promise calling found
I thank you for calling them off, young ser. I promise you, they would have found me indigestible.
fighting men loyal
A man who fights for coin is loyal only to his purse.
kids thinking made-up-stories
I had these cheap alien toys and I made up stories for them. They were space pirates. They didn’t have names so I made up names. These were the first stories I wrote. Even as a little kid I was thinking about torture.
kings stories problem
I could have written a story about a well-adjusted family. Ned Stark comes down to King’s Landing and takes over and solves all their problems. Would that have been as exciting?
two firsts nails
There are two kinds of writers. There are architects and gardeners. The architects do blueprints before they drive the first nail. The gardeners just dig a hole and plant the seed and see what comes up.
generosity borrowers your-generosity
Control your generosity when dealing with a chronic borrower.
queens names knights
And the mystery knight should defeat all challengers and name the wolf maid the queen of love and beauty.
suffering sin
As we sin, so do we suffer
mind rust
Minds are like swords, I do fear. The old ones go to rust.
years air dust
The air smelled of paper and dust and years.
kings men song-of-ice-and-fire
And any man who must say 'I am king' is no true king at all.
kings fall autumn
Kings are falling like leaves this autumn.
dawn foul ends
It seemed cruel for a day to dawn so fair and end so foul as this one promised to.
kings children father
Swords have been my life, not books. But every child knows that the Targaryens have always danced too close to madness. Your father was not the first. King Jaehaerys once told me that madness and greatness are two sides of the same coin. Every time a new Targaryen is born, he said, the gods toss the coin in the air and the world holds its breath to see how it will land.