844 Quotes by George R. R. Martin

Most people were startled to find out there were books that preceded Game Of Thrones. I'm a case of working forty years to be an overnight success.

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.

All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies..

Sooner would be better than later, and now would be better than sooner." - Tyrion

Remember this, boy. All dwarfs may be bastards, yet not all bastards need be dwarfs." And with that he turned and sauntered back into the feast, whistling a tune. When he opened the door, the light from within threw his shadow clear across the yard, and for just a moment Tyrion Lannister stood tall as a king.

I was just a kid selling monster stories to the kids in the projects, complete with a dramatic reading, making the werewolf sounds. My career was aborted early on because one of my main customers started to have nightmares and his mother came to my mother and my mother shut down my whole business.

There was an agelessness about him, a stillness; on Roose Bolton's face, rage and joy looked much the same.

Fear cuts deeper than swords.