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As Daenerys Targaryen rose to her feet, her black hissed, pale smoke venting from its mouth and nostrils. The other two pulled away from her breasts and added their voices to the call, translucent wings unfolding and

As Daenerys Targaryen rose to her feet, her black hissed, pale smoke venting from its mouth and nostrils. The other two pulled away from her breasts and added their voices to the call, translucent wings unfolding and stirring the air, and for the first time in hundreds of years, the night came alive with the music of dragons.

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

The women are the strong ones, truly.

George R. R. Martin
Strong
George R. R. Martin (2005). “A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Four”, p.194, Bantam

I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giants or elves or dwarves, or whatever they are, they're still human, and the human heart is still in conflict with the self.

George R. R. Martin
Heart, Character, Writing
"Producers David Benioff, Dan Weiss & George R.R. Martin Talk GAME OF THRONES Season 3 and 4, Martin’s Cameo, the End of the Series, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 20, 2013.

I'm a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, and they had a profound effect on me. I'd read other fantasy before, but none of them that I loved like Tolkien.

George R. R. Martin
Book, School, Profound
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

Noseless and Handless, the Lannister Boys.

George R. R. Martin
Boys, Lannisters, Tyrion

In my 10 years that I spent out in TV and film, I had my shares of frustrations and annoyances and disappointments, but also I think it was, in the long run, it was very good for me in a whole bunch of ways.

George R. R. Martin
Running, Disappointment, Frustration
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the special effects guy and the lighting technician: I'm all of that. So if it's good or bad, it's all up to me.

George R. R. Martin
Book, Guy, Special
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

There are things to be learned even from the dead.

George R. R. Martin
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.16, Bantam

Let him grow taller,she asked the gods.Let him know sixteen, and twenty, and fifty. Let him grow as tall as his father, and hold his own son in his arms. Please, please, please.

George R. R. Martin
Father, Son, Twenties
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.581, Bantam

I was a novelist first. But in the mid 80s, I did work in television for ten years. And yes, that was frequently the reaction to my scripts. People would say, you know, George, this is great. We love it, a terrific script, but it would cost five times our budget to shoot this.

George R. R. Martin
Years, People, Cost
"'Thrones' Author George R.R. Martin Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. September 14, 2012.

No man threatens His Grace in the presence of the Kingsguard.” Tyrion Lannister raised an eyebrow. “I am not threatening the king, ser, I am educating my nephew. Bronn, Timett, the next time Ser Boros opens his mouth, kill him.” The dwarf smiled. “Now that was a threat, ser. See the difference?

George R. R. Martin
Kings, Men, Dwarves
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.1069, Bantam

We only make peace with our enemies. That's why it's called making peace.

George R. R. Martin
Enemy, Making Peace
"Fictional character: Petyr Baelish". "Game of Thrones". Season 1, Episode 7: "You Win or You Die", www.imdb.com. May 29, 2011.

You always try to do your own thing. One of the things I wanted to do was to write a book that combines some of the best traits of contemporary fantasy with some of the traits of the historical novel.

George R. R. Martin
Book, Writing, Historical Novels
"Fantasy Author George R.R. Martin: Blood of Bayonne". Interview with Joanna Buffum and Dylan Runco, njmonthly.com. March 15, 2013.

Much as I admire Tolkien, I once again always felt like Gandalf should have stayed dead. That was such an incredible sequence in Fellowship of the Ring when he faces the Balrog on the Khazad-dûm and he falls into the gulf, and his last words are, "Fly, you fools." What power that had, how that grabbed me. And then he comes back as Gandalf the White, and if anything he's sort of improved. I never liked Gandalf the White as much as Gandalf the Grey, and I never liked him coming back. I think it would have been an even stronger story if Tolkien had left him dead.

George R. R. Martin
Fall, Thinking, Should Have
"George R. R. Martin, Author of 'A Song of Ice and Fire' Series". "The Sound of Young America" with John Hodgman, www.maximumfun.org. September 19, 2011.

When I am writing best, I really am lost in my world. I lose track of the outside world. I have a difficult time balancing between my real world and the artificial world.

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

I want you to be afraid to turn the page (and to do that) you need to show right from the beginning that you're playing for keeps.

George R. R. Martin
Reading, Writing, Novelists
"Interview with George R.R. Martin at Comicon". GeeksOn podcast (Episode 54), www.geekson.com. August 4, 2006.

Perhaps I will die too, she told herself, and the thought did not seem so terrible to her. If she flung herself from the window, she could put an end to her suffering, and in the years to come the singers would write songs of her grief. Her body would lie on the stones below, broken and innocent, shaming all those who had betrayed her. Sansa went so far as to cross the bedchamber and throw open the shutters ... but then her courage left her, and she ran back to her bed, sobbing.

George R. R. Martin
Song, Lying, Grief
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.655, Bantam

She went to the window seat and sat there, sniffling, hating them all, and herself most of all. It was all her fault, everything bad that had happened.

George R. R. Martin
Hate, Faults, Window
George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One”, p.229, Bantam

One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of writing, one of which was, 'You must finish what you write.' I never had any problem with the first one, 'You must write' - I was writing since I was a kid. But I never finished what writing.

George R. R. Martin
Reading, Kids, Writing
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

You know, I've always considered women to be people.

George R. R. Martin
People, Knows
"Edinburgh international book festival 2013: week two live blog" by Claire Armitstead, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2013.

It's very hard to find a good child actor. There are a lot of child actors out there, especially in America, and they're cute kids, but most child actors appear on sitcoms where their main role is to be cute and make funny little remarks.

George R. R. Martin
Cute, Children, Kids
Source: collider.com

I had written three books [Games of Throne], at that point, and each one of them was better than the other. At a certain point, as the books were doing well, I started getting interest from Hollywood, from various producers and studios who were initially interested in doing a feature film. I met with some of those people and I had phone conversations with some of those people, but I didn't see it being done as a feature film.

George R. R. Martin
Book, Phones, Games
Source: collider.com

I always give my students exercises where they really have to open a vein and bleed all over the paper and that's the way you get the important characters. Sooner or later every writer worth reading writes a story his mother wouldn't read and having to get that stuff out is part of one's growth as a writer.

George R. R. Martin
Mother, Reading, Character
"EIBF 2014: George R.R. Martin on Game Of Thrones, writing". www.denofgeek.com. August 15, 2014.

I think my very earliest stories were all intellectual exercises and I was writing from experiences I had never had about characters who were about an inch deep.

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

You can't just pick people for their hair color or the shape of their face. You have to go with the best actors.

George R. R. Martin
Hair, Color, People
Source: thesource.com

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