George R. R. Martin Quotes - Page 21

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• We're setting up mechanisms where we can kill human beings with drones and missiles where you're sitting at a console and pressing the button. We never have to hear their whimpering, or hear them begging for their mother, or dying in horrible realities around us. I don't know if that's necessarily such a good thing.

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  Mother, Reality, Dying

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• Is there any creature on earth as unfortunate as an ugly woman? (wonders Lady Catelyn Stark)

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  Earth, Ugly, Wonder

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• You know nothing, Jon Snow

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  Song, Fire, Knowing Nothing

  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.1758, Bantam

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• "Another name? Oh, certainly. And when the Faceless Men come to kill me, I'll say, 'No, you have the wrong man, I'm a different dwarf with a hideous facial scar.'" Both Lannisters laughed at the absurdity of it all.

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  Men, Dwarves, Names

  "A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 3)". Book by George R. R. Martin, August 8, 2000.

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• From where I sit, battles are hard. I’ve written my share. Sometimes I employ the private’s viewpoint, very up close and personal, dropping the reader right into the middle of the carnage. That’s vivid and visceral, but of necessity chaotic, and it is easy to lose all sense of the battle as a whole. Sometimes I go with the general’s point of view instead, looking down from on high, seeing lines and flanks and reserves. That gives a great sense of the tactics, of how the battle is won or lost, but can easily slide into abstraction.

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  Writing, Views, Giving

  Interview with Bernard Cornwell, www.bernardcornwell.net.

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• I'm a strong believer in telling stories through a limited but very tight third person point of view. I have used other techniques during my career, like the first person or the omniscient view point, but I actually hate the omniscient viewpoint. None of us have an omniscient viewpoint; we are alone in the universe. We hear what we can hear... we are very limited. If a plane crashes behind you I would see it but you wouldn't. That's the way we perceive the world and I want to put my readers in the head of my characters.

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  Strong, Hate, Writing

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• I bet this is a brothel," she whispered to Gendry. "You don't even know what a brothel is." "I do so," she insisted. "It's like an inn, with girls.

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  Girl, Inns, Brothels

  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.1788, Bantam

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• 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.]

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  Writing, Character, Thinking

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• I get up every day and work in the morning. I have my coffee and get to work. On good days I look up and it's dark outside and the whole day has gone by and I don't know where it's gone. But there's bad days, too. Where I struggle and sweat and a half hour creeps by and I've written three words. And half a day creeps by and I've written a sentence and a half and then I quit for the day and play computer games. You know, sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you. [Laughs]

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  Morning, Coffee, Struggle

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• Only lies offend me, never honest counsel.

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  Lying, Honest

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Storm of Swords: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Three”, p.339, Bantam

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• But Tolkien doesn't ask the question: What was Aragorn's tax policy?

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  Orcs, Taxes, Policy

  "George R.R. Martin: The Rolling Stone Interview". Interview with Mikal Gilmore, lesswrong.com. April 23, 2014.

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• She might have wept then, had not the sky begun to do it for her.

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  Rainy Day, Sky, Might

  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.1971, Bantam

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• If you die before you say her name, ser, I will hunt you through all seven hells.

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  Names, Hell, Seven

  "How did that mind-blowing 'Game of Thrones' duel play out in the book?" by Josh Wigler, www.mtv.com. June 2, 2014.

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• What was it Catelyn Stark had called them, that night at Bitterbridge? The knights of summer. And now it was autumn and they were falling like leaves.

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  Summer, Fall, Autumn

  George R. R. Martin (2005). “A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Four”, p.209, Bantam

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• There are no happy endings.

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  Happy Endings

  George R. R. Martin (2005). “A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Four”, p.225, Bantam

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• 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.

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  Real, Writing, Track

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

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  Book, Character, Two

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The eunuch had looked death in the face, so near he might have kissed her on the lips.

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  Might, Faces, Lips

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.1046, Bantam

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• The vast majority of writers out there, they finish their books and no one cares whether their book is late or ever comes out at all. And then it comes out and two reviews are published and it sells 12 copies.

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  Book, Two, Majority

  "Getting more from George RR Martin". Interview with Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2011.

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• Life is not a song, sweetling. Someday you may learn that, to your sorrow.

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  Song, Sorrow, May

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• Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live.

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  Men, Snow, Firsts

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• If the day comes when you would find me again, give that coin to any man from Braavos, and say these words to him--valar morghulis.

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  Kings, Men, Giving

  "A Clash of Kings". Book by George R. R. Martin, 1998.

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• Does he think to scare me? Arya kissed him where his nose should be and plucked the grave worm from his eye to eat it, but it melted like a shadow in her hand. The yellow skull was melting too, and the kindliest old man that she had ever seen was smiling down on her. "No one has ever tried to eat my worm before," he said. "Are you hungry, child?" Yes, she thought, but not for food.

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  Children, Eye, Men

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• The things I do for love.

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  "Game of Thrones. Season 1. Winter is Coming". TV Series, 2011.

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• I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces for fanzines, and I've written for Hollywood.

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  School, Careers, Hollywood

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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