844 Quotes by George R. R. Martin

a man who hates music can’t be trusted, I always say.

Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best. The best and the worst. And a few who were a bit of both.

I have idea files of books that I want to write one of these days, stories I want to write one of these days, but I'll probably never get to them.

Kings are falling like leaves this autumn.

What do we say to the Lord of Death?" "Not today.

I'm not a writer who's preaching some particular philosophy or something but the big questions do concern me and I like to make my readers think and debate and argue with each other and look at some aspect of the world or some act of governance or war or power and have an angle they haven't considered before, and that's something I strive for and hopefully have accomplished.

It's not," Mormont told him. "Gods save us, boy, you're not blind and you're not stupid. When dead men come hunting in the night, do you think it matters who sits the Iron Throne?

A bruise is a lesson... and each lesson makes us better.

All my life men like you've sneered at me, and all my life I've been knocking men like you into the dust.