I’ve written some standalone novels, but a book series allows fans in. There’s much more intense involvement. George R. R. Martin Read Quote
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. George R. R. Martin Read Quote
You want people to be eager for your book; the downside is when the people forget the series even exists. George R. R. Martin Read Quote
Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne, N.J. George R. R. Martin Read Quote
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. George R. R. Martin Read Quote
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. George R. R. Martin Read Quote
The vast majority of writers out there, they finish their books, and no one cares whether their book is late or ever comes out at all. And then it comes out, and two reviews are published, and it sells 12 copies. George R. R. Martin Read Quote
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. George R. R. Martin Read Quote
I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China and Liberia and England and Denmark and whatever, and I learned all the different flags, and I tried to imagine what it would be like to be voyaging on some of these ships. George R. R. Martin Read Quote
