844 Quotes by George R. R. Martin

The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.

When I am writing best, I really am lost in my world. I lose track of the outside world. I have a difficult time balancing between my real world and the artificial world.

It all goes back and back," Tyrion thought, "to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance in our steads.

Mothers." The man made a word sound like a curse. "I think birthing does something to your minds. You are all mad.

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. Look her in the eyes before you kill her. See her tears, hear her last words. You owe her that much at least." - Eddard Stark

It's different for every writer. It's not a career for anyone who needs security. It's a career for gamblers. It's a career of ups and downs.

Words are like arrows, Arianne. Once loosed, you cannot call them back. - Areo Hotah

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.

She had killed him with a whisper, and she would kill two more before she was through. I’m the ghost in Harrenhal, she thought. And that night, there was one less name to hate.