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There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.

There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.

George R. R. Martin
War, Men, Hands
George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Storm of Swords: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Three”, p.343, Bantam

If I look back I am lost.

George R. R. Martin
Looks, Lost, Ifs
George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.766, Bantam

We're all the heroes of our own stories. So, when I am inside the head of a character who would otherwise be considered a villain, I have a great deal of affection for that character and I'm trying to see the world and the events through their eyes.

George R. R. Martin
Hero, Character, Eye
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I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.

George R. R. Martin
Happy Endings, Distrust, Conventional
"A conversation with Game of Thrones author George R. R. Martin". The Sydney Morning Herald Interview, www.smh.com.au. August 1, 2011.

A great many of the epic fantasies, from The Lord of the Rings onward, are about war, but to my mind, a lot of it doesn't really deal honestly with the consequences of war, what war does to us, as a society, what war does to us, as individuals, and the struggle for power, in the same way, and what we're fighting for.

George R. R. Martin
War, Struggle, Fighting
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Lords are gold and knights steel, but two links can't make a chain. You also need silver and iron and lead, tin and copper and bronze and all the rest, and those are farmers and smiths and merchants and the like. A chain needs all sorts of metals, and a land needs all sorts of people.

George R. R. Martin
Knights, Land, Two
George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.381, Bantam

My featherbed is deep and soft, and there I’ll lay you down, I’ll dress you all in yellow silk and on your head a crown. For you shall be my lady love, and I shall be your lord. I’ll always keep you warm and safe, and guard you with my sword. And how she smiled and how she laughed, the maiden of the tree. She spun away and said to him, no featherbed for me. I’ll wear a gown of golden leaves, and bind my hair with grass, But you can be my forest love, and me your forest lass.

George R. R. Martin
Hair, Yellow, Tree
George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1715, Bantam

They'll kill for that knighthood, but don't ever think they'll die for it.

George R. R. Martin
Thinking, Knighthood, Dies
George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1230, Bantam

The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems like real life is flickering by and you're hardly a part of it. You remember the events in your books better than you remember the events that actually took place when you were writing them.

George R. R. Martin
Real, Book, Writing
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.

George R. R. Martin
Heartbreak, Betrayal, Soul
George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.407, Bantam

My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer and I have my mind...and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much Jon Snow.

George R. R. Martin
Song, Brother, Kings
George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.114, Bantam

Give me a good sharp knife and a good sharp cheese and I’m a happy man.

George R. R. Martin
Men, Knives, Giving
George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.805, Bantam

Man wants to be the king o' the rabbits, he best wear a pair o' floppy ears.

George R. R. Martin
Leadership, Kings, Men
George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.50, Bantam

It was the easiest thing in the world for Arya to step up behind him and stab him. “Is there gold hidden in the village?” she shouted as she drove the blade up through his back. “Is there silver? Gems?” She stabbed twice more. “Is there food? Where is Lord Beric?” She was on top of him by then, still stabbing. “Where did he go? How many men were with him? How many knights? How many bowmen? How many, how many, how many, how many, how many, how many? is there gold in the village?

George R. R. Martin
Men, Knights, Gold
George R. R. Martin (2000). “A Storm of Swords”, Spectra

You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. You need her, as she needs you.

George R. R. Martin
Sister, Heart, Moon
George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.196, Bantam

We're all just songs in the end. If we are lucky.

George R. R. Martin
Song, Lucky, Ends
George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1969, Bantam

There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.

George R. R. Martin
Fear, Father, What Matters
George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.784, Bantam

One voice may speak you false, but in many there is always truth to be found.

George R. R. Martin
Voice, May, Speak
George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1556, Bantam

He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world.

George R. R. Martin
Fall, World, Pages
George R. R. Martin (2005). “A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Four”, p.72, Bantam

I have climbed these steps so often I know each one by name.

George R. R. Martin
Names, Steps, Knows
George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.750, Bantam

There’s an old writing rule that says ‘Don’t have two character names start with the same letter’, but I knew at the beginning that I was going to have more than 26 characters, so I was in trouble there. Ultimately it comes down to what sounds right. And I struggle with that, finding the right name for a character. If I can’t find the right name I don’t know who the character is and I can’t proceed.

George R. R. Martin
Struggle, Writing, Character

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.

George R. R. Martin
Men, Swings, Justice
George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.25, Bantam

For men, the answer was always the same and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know.

George R. R. Martin
Mother, Men, Answers
George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1194, Bantam

...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword." "...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.

George R. R. Martin
Integrity, Men, Swings
George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.28, Bantam

Ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.

George R. R. Martin
Men, Shadow, Thrones
George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.810, Bantam

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