844 Quotes by George R. R. Martin

If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it’s a superficial experience isn’t it?

I must show no fear, no weakness, no doubt.

I wanted to write a big novel, something epic in scale.

There are no men like me. There's only me

I've always taken that as my guiding principle and the rest is just set dressing. You can have dragons in it, or aliens and starships, or a western about a gunslinger, or even literary fiction, and ultimately you're still writing about the human heart in conflict with itself.

We know truth for the cruel instrument it is. Beauty is infinitely preferable to truth.

Words are wind, Brienne told herself. They cannot hurt you. Let them wash over you.

A man does not need to be a wizard to know truth from falsehood, not if he has eyes. You need only learn to read a face. Look at the eyes. The mouth. The muscles here, at the corners of the jaw, and here, where the neck joins the shoulders.

There is magic in my universe, but it's pretty low magic compared to other fantasies.