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Soon comes the cold, and the night that never ends.

Soon comes the cold, and the night that never ends.

George R. R. Martin
Night, Cold, Ends
George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Storm of Swords: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Three”, p.515, Bantam

For they are the knights of summer, and winter is coming.

George R. R. Martin
Summer, Winter, Knights
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.967, Bantam

Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next.

George R. R. Martin
Confused, Thrones, Want
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.2138, Bantam

So many vows … they make you swear and swear. Defend the king. Obey the king. Keep his secrets. Do his bidding. Your life for his. But obey your father. Love your sister. Protect the innocent. Defend the weak. Respect the gods. Obey the laws. It’s too much. No matter what you do, you’re forsaking one vow or another.

George R. R. Martin
Kings, Father, Law
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.1293, Bantam

I was a journalism major, and I would take creative writing classes as part of that, but I would also look for opportunities to write stories for some of my other classes. So for my course in Scandinavian history, I asked if I could write historical fiction instead of term papers. Sometimes they’d say yes.

George R. R. Martin
Writing, Opportunity, Class

One of the hardest parts of writing is writing from the gut or the heart or something like that rather than intellectually.

George R. R. Martin
Writing, Heart, Hardest
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She is not truly beautiful but something about her draws the eye.

George R. R. Martin
Beautiful, Eye, Attractive

Unfortunately in television, for whatever reason, fantasy became thought of as a kids' genre.

George R. R. Martin
Kids, Television, Fantasy
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

Gods be good, why would any man ever want to be king? When everyone was shouting King in the North, King in the North, I told myself ... swore to myself ... that I would be a good king, as honorable as Father, strong, just, loyal to my friends and brave when I faced my enemies ... now I can't even tell one from the other.

George R. R. Martin
Strong, Kings, Father
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.1691, Bantam

A lot of fantasy names are too much. They’re too difficult to pronounce. I wanted the flavour of medieval England. I took actual names we still use today, like ‘Robert’, and in some case I tweaked them a little bit. I made ‘Edward’ into ‘Eddard’. If you look back at medieval times, no one knew how to spell their own names. There are a lot of variations that we’ve lost.

George R. R. Martin
Names, Looks, Use

When the red star bleeds and the darkness gathers, Azor Ahai shall be born again amidst smoke and salt to wake dragons out of stone.

George R. R. Martin
Stars, Dragons, Darkness
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.1747, Bantam

Too stupid to learn and too stupid to give up.

George R. R. Martin
Giving Up, Stupid, 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.2710, Bantam

And pray that he is the man I think he is, he finished silently, and not the man I fear he has become.

George R. R. Martin
Men, Thinking, Praying
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.189, Bantam

Men are mad and gods are madder, she told the grass, and the grass murmured its agreement.

George R. R. Martin
Men, Agreement, Mad
George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.1065, Bantam

I feel satisfaction at the end of the day when I've written a scene that I really like or when I write a good line of dialogue that I read out to my wife or something like that. But there's also days where it's just bloody agony and I go, 'ugh, this is such crap! Why did I think I had any talent?

George R. R. Martin
Writing, Thinking, Agony
"EIBF 2014: George R.R. Martin on Game Of Thrones, writing". www.denofgeek.com. August 15, 2014.

...if you dance with dragons, you must expect to burn.

George R. R. Martin
Dragons, Ifs
George R. R. Martin (2015). “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms”, p.443, Bantam

And for the first time in hundreds of years, the night came alive with the music of dragons.

George R. R. Martin
Night, Dragons, Years
George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One”, p.816, Bantam

The way my books are structured, everyone was together, then they all went their separate ways and the story deltas out like that, and now it’s getting to the point where the story is beginning to delta back in, and the viewpoint characters are occasionally meeting up with each other now and being in the same point at the same time, which gives me a lot more flexibility for killing people.

George R. R. Martin
Book, Character, People
"George R.R. Martin Teases Major Deaths In Next 'Game Of Thrones' Book" by Josh Wigler, www.mtv.com. August 22, 2014.

Not all books are for all people. We read for different reasons.

George R. R. Martin
Book, People, Different
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Show me the path I must walk and do not let me stumble in the dark places that lie ahead.

George R. R. Martin
Lying, Dark, Path
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.1075, Bantam

Robb: Uncle Benjen said to send you to the stables if I saw you. Jon: I have one more farewell to make. Robb: Then I haven't seen you.

George R. R. Martin
Uncles, Farewell, Saws

When you play a game of thrones you win or you die.

George R. R. Martin
Winning, Ice, Games

Only the soldier pines and sentinels still showed green; the broadleaf trees had donned mantles of russet and gold, or else uncloaked themselves to scratch against the sky with branches brown and bare.

George R. R. Martin
Sky, Tree, Soldier
George R. R. Martin (2005). “A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Four”, p.58, Bantam

An honest kiss, a little kindness, everyone deserves that much, however big or small.

George R. R. Martin
Kindness, Kissing, Littles
George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.613, Bantam

I believe that a writer learns from every story he writes, and when you try different things, you learn different lessons. Working with other writers, as in Hollywood or in a shared world series, will also strengthen your skills, by exposing you to new ways of seeing the work, and different approaches to certain creative challenges.

George R. R. Martin
Believe, Writing, Skills
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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