844 Quotes by George R. R. Martin

I've never been good with deadlines. My early novels, I wrote by myself. No one knew I was writing a novel; I didn't have a contract.

When a pirate grows rich enough, they make him a prince.

We read fantasy to find the colors again, I think. To taste strong spices and hear the songs the sirens sang.

Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.

Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.

I knew that, when writing a book, you're not constrained by a budget. You're not constrained by what you can do, in terms of the special effects technology. You're not limited to any particular running time.

Do the dead frighten you?

You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall.

Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner.