844 Quotes by George R. R. Martin

When we speak of the morrow nothing is ever certain.

When the end comes, I will meet it raging.

When you smell our candles burning, what does it make you think of, my child?" Winterfell, she might have said. I smell snow and smoke and pine needles. I smell the stables. I smell Hodor laughing, and Jon and Robb battling in the yard, and Sansa singing about some stupid lady fair. I smell the crypts where the stone kings sit. I smell hot bread baking. I smell the godswood. I smell my wolf. I smell her fur, almost as if she were still beside me. "I don't smell anything," she said.

If you need help bark like a dog." - Gendry. "That's stupid. If I need help I'll shout help." - Arya

The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud between Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James. James won, and it split literature into two streams. But it's a totally false dichotomy.

The truth of it is, writers do have peculiar relationships with their characters. They are our children in more senses than one. They are born of our imaginations, carry much of ourselves in them, and embody whatever dreams we dream of immortality.

In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.

And pray that he is the man I think he is, he finished silently, and not the man I fear he has become.

Some gave me soft words and some blunt, some made excuses, some promises, some only lied. In the end words are just wind.