844 Quotes by George R. R. Martin

I love you too, sweet sister. But you're a fool. A beautiful golden fool.

Names are hard. I have a library of What to Name Your Baby books, and I’m always picking up new books, and books of baby names from other countries. I like cool-sounding names.

Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.

Women do not forget. Women do not forgive.

Knowledge is a Weapon, Jon. Arm yourself well before you ride forth to Battle.

Sometimes I think everyone is just pretending to be brave, and none of us really are. Maybe pretending is how you get brave, I don't know.

Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction.

Wisdom oft comes from the mouth of babes.

A lot of fantasy names are too much. They’re too difficult to pronounce. I wanted the flavour of medieval England. I took actual names we still use today, like ‘Robert’, and in some case I tweaked them a little bit. I made ‘Edward’ into ‘Eddard’. If you look back at medieval times, no one knew how to spell their own names. There are a lot of variations that we’ve lost.