Quotes from George R. R. Martin

You'll find truth in your looking glass, not on the tongues of men.

Give me a good sharp knife and a good sharp cheese and I'm a happy man.

I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off.

Not all men were meant to dance with dragons.

Those are brave men... lets go kill them

Men have scars, women mysteries.

Ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.

Men are mad and gods are madder, she told the grass, and the grass murmured its agreement.

And pray that he is the man I think he is, he finished silently, and not the man I fear he has become.

And I tell you truly, Danaerys, there is no man in all the world who will ever be half so true to you as me.

All my life men like you've sneered at me, and all my life I've been knocking men like you into the dust.

You know, I've always considered women to be people.

The women are the strong ones, truly.

I wanted to write a big novel, something epic in scale.

I've never been good with deadlines. My early novels, I wrote by myself. No one knew I was writing a novel; I didn't have a contract.

I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20 years or so and write another dozen novels, probably some sort of imaginative literature... Never again another seven-volume saga.

I've written some standalone novels, but a book series allows fans in. There's much more intense involvement.

I've said in many interviews that I like my fiction to be unpredictable. I like there to be considerable suspense.

It's really irritating when you open a book, and 10 pages into it you know that the hero you met on page one or two is gonna come through unscathed, because he's the hero. This is completely unreal, and I don't like it.

Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you

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 read books, and I could go to Mars or Middle Earth or the Hyborian age.

Anger was better than tears, better than grief, better than guilt.

I work for two years on a book and it comes out and two days later I've got my first e-mail: When is the next one coming out?

Start trying to work out who deserves what, and before long you'll spend the rest of your days weeping for each and every person in the world.