There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings. George R. R. Martin Read Quote
I have files, I have computer files and, you know, files on paper. But most of it is really in my head. So God help me if anything ever happens to my head! George R. R. Martin Read Quote
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. George R. R. Martin Read Quote
I’ve always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giants or elves or dwarves, or whatever they are, they’re still human, and the human heart is still in conflict with the self. George R. R. Martin Read Quote
I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains. George R. R. Martin Read Quote
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. George R. R. Martin Read Quote
If you’re going to write about war, which my books are about, wars are nasty things. I think it’s sort of a cheap, easy way out to write a war story in which no one ultimately dies. George R. R. Martin Read Quote
I write from this tight third-person viewpoint, where each chapter is seen through the eyes of one individual character. When I’m writing that character, I become that character and identify with that character. George R. R. Martin Read Quote
