Quotes from George R. R. Martin

There are writers, and I know some of them, who are very disciplined. Who write, like, four pages a day, every day. And it doesn't matter if their dog got run over by a car that day, or they won the Irish sweepstakes. I'm not one of those writers.

I can see a scene in my head, and when I try to get it down in words on paper, the words are clunky; the scene is not coming across right. So frustrating. And there are days where it keeps flowing. Open the floodgates, and there it is. Pages and pages coming. Where the hell does this all come from? I don't know.

I have files, I have computer files and, you know, files on paper. But most of it is really in my head. So God help me if anything ever happens to my head!

Whenever I switch from one character to another, there's always a few days where I really struggle because I'm changing voices and I'm changing ways of looking at the world. I'm not just flicking a switch; it's harder process than that.

I grew up with four T.V. channels. If you missed a show, you missed it. You gotta wait a week for the next one. I'd mail-order books: take a quarter, get an envelope, send off for it and wait until it arrived. I grew up waiting for things.

I spent a whole summer working on what proved to be 'A Game of Thrones'.

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 should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care. If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it's a superficial experience isn't it?

I wrote six pilots, none of which ever got picked up. When you stop trying, it then it falls in your lap.

I suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic.

a man who hates music can't be trusted, I always say.

Valar Morghulis - All men must die.

A man agrees with god as a raindrop agrees with the storm

Men are men, vows are words, and words are wind.

You're mine," she whispered. "Mine, as I'm yours. And if we die, we die. All men must die, Jon Snow. But first, we'll live.

When treating with liars, even an honest man must lie.

Kill the boy, Jon Snow. Winter is almost upon us. Kill the boy and let the man be born.

You are an honest and honorable man...Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life.

And any man who must say 'I am king' is no true king at all.

A mad man sees what he sees.

I have been despised by better men than you.

Only a fool humbles himself when the world is so full of men eager to do that job for him. (Theon Greyjoy)

The gods don't care about men, no more than kings care about peasants.

A lord may love the men that he commands, but he cannot be a friend to them. One day he may need to sit in judgement on them, or send them forth to die.

Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner.