I think in television and film, it’s not usually the child’s point of view. It’s the story of an adult. If there’s a child in a drama or an action-adventure movie, they’re someone who needs to be saved, someone who needs to be protected, or if they’re killed, someone who needs to be avenged. Their character doesn’t matter much. George R. R. Martin Read Quote
The prejudice is still there, but it’s breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and The Yiddish Policemen’s Union. He’s a writer who’s determined to break down genre barriers. He’s done amazing things. George R. R. Martin Read Quote
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. George R. R. Martin Read Quote
I’m a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, and they had a profound effect on me. I’d read other fantasy before, but none of them that I loved like Tolkien. George R. R. Martin Read Quote
One of the things I love, and I’m a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable. George R. R. Martin Read Quote
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. George R. R. Martin Read Quote
My characters who come back from death are worse for wear. In some ways, they’re not even the same characters anymore. The body may be moving, but some aspect of the spirit is changed or transformed, and they’ve lost something. George R. R. Martin Read Quote
Rome’ was one of my favourite shows, and I wish HBO had given it three more seasons ’cause I would have loved to continue watching it. George R. R. Martin Read Quote
If you go all the way back, I’ve always written science-fiction, I’ve always written fantasy, I’ve always written horror stories and monster stories, right from the beginning of my career. I’ve always moved back and forth between the genres. I don’t really recognise that there’s a significant difference between them in some senses. George R. R. Martin Read Quote
