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If you're going to write about war, which my books are about, wars are nasty things. I think it's sort of a cheap, easy way out to write a war story in which no one ultimately dies. - George R. R. Martin
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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
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You can have the power to destroy, but it doesn't give you the power to reform, or improve, or build. - George R. R. Martin
#Build
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If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scary thing. And I want my readers to feel that fear as they turn the page. - George R. R. Martin
#Battle
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I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings. - George R. R. Martin
#Conventional
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Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction. - George R. R. Martin
#Mystery
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#Science
#Yes
I've never been good with deadlines. My early novels, I wrote by myself. No one knew I was writing a novel; I didn't have a contract. - George R. R. Martin
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#Myself
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'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
#Continue
#Loved
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#Watching
#Wish
Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been. - George R. R. Martin
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I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white. - George R. R. Martin
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I have files, I have computer files and, you know, files on paper. But most of it is really in my head. So God help me if anything ever happens to my head! - George R. R. Martin
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Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or fantasy or western mystery stories or so-called literary stories. All those things are essentially untrue. But it has to have a truth at the core of it. - George R. R. Martin
#Fantasy
#Mystery
#People
#Science
#Truth
All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful. - George R. R. Martin
#Certain
#Fiction
#Powerful
#Truth
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
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#Together
The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud between Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James. James won, and it split literature into two streams. But it's a totally false dichotomy. - George R. R. Martin
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Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories. - George R. R. Martin
#Heroes
#Nobody
#Own
#Story
#Villain
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