Quotes from George R. R. Martin

Debes conocer a los hombres que te siguen-le oyo decir a Robb una vez-, y ellos debe conocerte. No les pidas a tus hombres que mueran por un desconocido.

Um leitor vive mil vidas antes de morrer. O homem que nunca lê vive apenas uma.

Women were always the cruelest where other women were concerned.

Even a man who had survived a hundred battle can break in his hundred-and-first.

Nothing bores me more than books where you read two pages and you know exactly how it's going to come out. I want twists and turns that surprise me, characters that have a difficult time and that I don't know if they're going to live or die.

If I wanted to honor you, I´d let you retire. I am planing to make you run the kingdom and fight the wars while I eat and drink

Wisdom oft comes from the mouth of babes.

I knew that, when writing a book, you're not constrained by a budget. You're not constrained by what you can do, in terms of the special effects technology. You're not limited to any particular running time.

There are no men like me. There's only me

If there are gods, why is the world so full of pain and injustice?' 'Because of men like you.

The gods are blind. And men see only what they wish" - Tyrion Lannister

If half an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good or he is evil. (Melisandre of Asshai)

That was the way of this cold world, where men fished the sea and dug in the ground and died, whilst women brought forth short-lived children from beds of blood and pain.

I do get invitations all of the time to play actual fantasy football, by the way, but I get the feeling that I'd like it too much. I have enough demands on my time. My fans would kill me.

I think that, in all of my time, I got just one fan letter, from an NFL fullback named Darian Barnes. NFL players might not have enough time for my books.

I have done a lot of work in Hollywood myself. I worked in television for roughly 10 years, from the mid-'80s to mid-'90s. And I was on staff at a couple of shows. I did some feature films, including originals and adaptations.

The years leech at a man's memories, even those he has vowed never to forget.

But what a man can do and what a man will do are two different things, he knew.

There is no creature on earth half so terrifying as a truly just man.

I am surrounded by flatterers and fools. It can drive a man to madness,.. . Half of them don't dare tell me the truth, and the other half can't find it.

Man wants to be the king o' the rabbits, he best wear a pair o' floppy ears.

The man who never reads lives only one.

When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.

When your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet. Elsewise no man will ever bend the knee to you