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I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care. If somebody dies and you just go get

I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care. If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it's a superficial experience isn't it?

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

You should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care.

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

Historical fiction is not history. You're blending real events and actual historical personages with characters of your own creation.

George R. R. Martin
Real, Character, Historical
Source: www.bernardcornwell.net

Tolkien made the wrong choice when he brought Gandalf back. Screw Gandalf. He had a great death and the characters should have had to go on without him.

George R. R. Martin
Character, Should Have, Choices
Interview on a panel at Odyssey Con 2008 in Madison, Wisconsin, www.westeros.org. April 6, 2008.

I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains.

George R. R. Martin
Hero, Character, Long
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.

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

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
Source: collider.com

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 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.

As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but also for hate. I wanted to write those kinds of complex character in a fantasy, and not just have all the good people get together to fight the bad guy.

George R. R. Martin
Hate, Writing, Character
"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 do play all the characters, when I write them, one after another. If they actually had to film me, the only one I could play would be Samwell Tarly or Hot Pie.

George R. R. Martin
Writing, Character, Play
Source: collider.com

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 don't like the strictly objective viewpoint [in which all of the characters' actions are described in the third person, but we never hear what any of them are thinking.] Which is much more of a cinematic technique. Something written in third person objective is what the camera sees. Because unless you're doing a voiceover, which is tremendously clumsy, you can't hear the ideas of characters. For that, we depend on subtle clues that the directors put in and that the actors supply. I can actually write, "'Yes you can trust me,' he lied." [But it's better to get inside the characters' heads.]

George R. R. Martin
Writing, Character, Thinking

I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters.

George R. R. Martin
Character, Emotional, Attachment
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

Nothing bores me more than books where you read two pages and you know exactly how it's going to come out. I want twists and turns that surprise me, characters that have a difficult time and that I don't know if they're going to live or die.

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

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 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.

I'm fond of all my characters so every time one doesn't make the cut I'm a little disappointed although I understand it.

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

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