844 Quotes by George R. R. Martin

Start trying to work out who deserves what, and before long you'll spend the rest of your days weeping for each and every person in the world.

The sea is never weary. I must be as tireless.

An awful lot of fantasy, and even some great fantasy, falls into the mistake of assuming that a good man will be a good king, that all that is necessary is to be a decent human being and when you're king everything will go swimmingly.

My own heroes are the dreamers, those men and women who tried to make the world a better place than when they found it, whether in small ways or great ones. Some succeeded, some failed, most had mixed results... but it is the effort that's heroic, as I see it. Win or lose, I admire those who fight the good fight.

But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about is advancing the plot, why read novels? We can just read Cliffs Notes.

I have a hole where my heart should be, she thought, and nowhere else to go.

A long summer always meant a long winter to come.

That little touch is not in the books, but I wish it had been in the books because it was a great addition.

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.