I watch NFL football on Sundays. I enjoy gaming with friends, meaning role-playing games; I still enjoy going to conventions and traveling. George R. R. Martin Read Quote
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. George R. R. Martin Read Quote
A lot of writing takes place in the subconscious, and it’s bound to have an effect. George R. R. Martin Read Quote
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? George R. R. Martin Read Quote
Yes – 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction. George R. R. Martin Read Quote
I worked out of Hollywood for 10 years and I had my heart broken half a dozen times, so I know all the things that can go wrong. George R. R. Martin Read Quote
I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories – I love the short story. George R. R. Martin Read Quote
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. George R. R. Martin Read Quote
Many writers will get a contract by selling chapters and outlines or something like that. I wrote the entire novel, and when it was all finished, I would give it to my agent and say, ‘Well, here’s a novel; sell it if you can.’ And they would do that, and it was good because I never had anyone looking over my shoulder. George R. R. Martin Read Quote
