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Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne, N.J.

Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne, N.J.

George R. R. Martin
Summer, Sports, Baseball
Interview with Adam Duerson, www.si.com. May 31, 2012.

[as for evolution]....cutting out the sections [on the subject] is preferrable if the portions are not thick enough to cause damage to the spine of the book as it is opened and closed in normal use. When the sections needing correction are too thick, paste the pages together being careful not to smear portions of the book not intended for correction.

George R. R. Martin
Book, Cutting, Together

There is magic in my universe, but it's pretty low magic compared to other fantasies.

George R. R. Martin
Magic, Fantasy, Lows
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings.

George R. R. Martin
Kings, Example, Medieval
"‘Game Of Thrones’ Author George R. R. Martin Answers Fans’ Questions Live" by Amy Lee, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 28, 2011.

I watch NFL football on Sundays. I enjoy gaming with friends, meaning role-playing games; I still enjoy going to conventions and traveling.

George R. R. Martin
Football, Sunday, Playing Games
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description of clothes, and gratuitous heraldry, because very little of this is necessary to advance the plot. But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about is advancing the plot, why read novels? We can just read Cliffs Notes.

George R. R. Martin
Sex, Philosophy, Reading

It's really irritating when you open a book, and 10 pages into it you know that the hero you met on page one or two is gonna come through unscathed, because he's the hero. This is completely unreal, and I don't like it.

George R. R. Martin
Book, Hero, Two
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

I was always intensely Romantic, even when I was too young to understand what that meant.

George R. R. Martin
Young
"Sunsets of High Renown". Interview with Nick Gevers, www.infinityplus.co.uk. December 2000.

Sure. Some of the reviews have been very flattering, but the series is not finished yet. The end needs to be as strong as the beginning.

George R. R. Martin
Strong, Needs, Ends
Science Fiction and Fantasy World Interview, www.sffworld.com. May 17, 2006.

As a writer, my goal, (which I'm never going to achieve, and I know that, and no writer can achieve that,) but my goal is to make you almost live the books. I want you to fall through that page and feel as if these things are happening to you.

George R. R. Martin
Book, Fall, Goal
Geekson Interview, Episode 54, www.geekson.com. August 04, 2006.

The cable makers are the ones who are willing to take risks and do something original and push the envelope some.

George R. R. Martin
Risk, Envelopes, Pushing The Envelope
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

'Rome' was one of my favourite shows, and I wish HBO had given it three more seasons 'cause I would have loved to continue watching it.

George R. R. Martin
Rome, Hbo, Wish
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

I've written some standalone novels, but a book series allows fans in. There's much more intense involvement.

George R. R. Martin
Book, Fans, Intense
"George R. R. Martin talks 'Game of Thrones' as the HBO show's 'Daenerys' departs". Interview with Maureen Ryan, featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com. April 29, 2010.

I've said in many interviews that I like my fiction to be unpredictable. I like there to be considerable suspense.

George R. R. Martin
Interviews, Suspense, Fiction
"'Game of Thrones' author George R.R. Martin: Why he wrote The Red Wedding". Interview with James Hibberd, ew.com. June 2, 2013.

If H. P. Lovecraft and H. L. Mencken had ever collaborated, they might have come up with something like The Edge of Reason. This one will delight thinkers-and outrage true believers-of all stripes.

George R. R. Martin
Stripes, Delight, Might

I wrote six pilots, none of which ever got picked up. When you stop trying, it then it falls in your lap.

George R. R. Martin
Fall, Trying, Pilots
"George R. R. Martin Interview GAME OF THRONES". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 17, 2011.

Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths.

George R. R. Martin
Men

I wanted to write a big novel, something epic in scale.

George R. R. Martin
Writing, Epic, Bigs
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

When you have known the kiss of a flaying knife, a laugh loses all its power to hurt you.

George R. R. Martin
Hurt, Kissing, Knives
George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.569, Bantam

I don’t know if I have any particular views about women in positions of power, though I do think it’s more difficult for women, particularly in a Medieval setting. They have the additional problem that they’re a woman and people don’t want them in a position of power in an essentially patriarchal society.

George R. R. Martin
Thinking, Views, Position Of Power
"‘Game Of Thrones’ Author George R. R. Martin Answers Fans’ Questions Live" by Amy Lee, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 28, 2011.

Don't write outlines; I hate outlines.

George R. R. Martin
Hate, Writing, I Hate
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

That little touch is not in the books, but I wish it had been in the books because it was a great addition.

George R. R. Martin
Book, Wish, Littles

The truth of it is, writers do have peculiar relationships with their characters. They are our children in more senses than one. They are born of our imaginations, carry much of ourselves in them, and embody whatever dreams we dream of immortality.

George R. R. Martin
Dream, Children, Character

I have always been a dark writer.

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

It’s being ready to accept rejection. You can work on a book for two years and get it published, and it’s like you may as well have thrown it down a well. It’s not all champagne and doing interviews with The New York Times.

George R. R. Martin
New York, Book, Years

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