Quotes from George R. R. Martin

They say night's beauties fade at dawn, and the children of wine are oft disowned in the morning light.

She was Daenerys Stormborn, the Unburnt, Khaleesi and queen, Mother of Dragons, slayer of warlocks, breaker of chains, and there was no one in the world that she could trust.

Viserys sold my mother's crown, and men called him a beggar. I shall keep this one, so men will call me a queen. (Daenerys)

There is only one god and his name is Death. And there is only one thing we say to Death: "Not today.

Nothing. My father is very good at doing nothing. He calls it thinking.

There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings.

Wine makes all things possible.

The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves.

What would a Frey know of honor? - Sir Davos Seaworth

Cersei Lannister: I shall wear this as a badge of honor. Robert Barathon: Wear it in silence or I'll honor you again.

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, so I read ferociously and imagined things.

Power resides only where men believe it resides. [...] A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.

The girl had hoped for fog, but the gods ignored her prayers as gods so often did.

I was always intensely Romantic, even when I was too young to understand what that meant.

When the writing is going really well, whole days and weeks go by, and I suddenly realise I have all these unpaid bills and, my God, I haven't unpacked, and the suitcase has been sitting there for three weeks.

Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or fantasy or western mystery stories or so-called literary stories. All those things are essentially untrue. But it has to have a truth at the core of it.

Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that's too cruel.

Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.

In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.

I find religion and spirituality fascinating. I would like to believe this isn't the end and there's something more, but I can't convince the rational part of me that that makes any sense whatsoever.

Whether you're a history buff or a fantasy fan, Druon's epic will keep you turning pages. This was the original game of thrones. If you like 'A Song of Ice and Fire', you will love 'The Accursed Kings'.

It's like these ideas, these characters, kind of bubble up inside me, and one day they're not there, and the next day they are there. They're alive, and they're whispering in my head and all that stuff, and I want to write about those things.

I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.

I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.