George R. R. Martin

Quotes

• “Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whet...”
• “I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you shoul...”
• “Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire', as historical fiction ...”
• “I knew that, when writing a book, you're not constrained by a budget. You're not constrained by what you can do, in term...”
• “I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I always re...”
• “There was part of me that wanted to see the world and travel to distant places, but I could only do it in my imagination...”
• “Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department ...”
• “I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.”