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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

Topics: Heroes Nobody Our Own Stories Story Villain

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

~George R. R. Martin

Topics: Black Black And White Characters Grey Prefer Rather Than White Work

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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

Topics: About Core Essentially Events Existed Fantasy Fiction Happened Lies Literary Mystery Never People Science Science Fiction So-Called Stories Things Those Truth Untrue Western Whether Who Write Writing

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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

Topics: Also Bad Bad Guy Capacity Character Complex Evil Fantasy Faulkner Fight Get Get Together Good Good People Great Guy Hate Just Kinds Love People Says Those Together Us Wanted Write

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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 more popcorn, it's a superficial experience isn't it?

~George R. R. Martin

Topics: Book Care Character Dies Events Experience Feel Fictional Friend Get Go Grieve Just Lived Make More Popcorn Readers Should Somebody Superficial Try You

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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

Topics: Build Destroy Give Improve Power Reform You

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I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.

~George R. R. Martin

Topics: Conventional Distrust Endings Happy Instinctual

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All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful.

~George R. R. Martin

Topics: Amount Certain Fiction Powerful Truth

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A lot of writing takes place in the subconscious, and it's bound to have an effect.

~George R. R. Martin

Topics: Bound Effect Lot Place Subconscious Takes Writing

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It's like these ideas, these characters, kind of bubble up inside me, and one day they're not there, and the next day they are there. They're alive, and they're whispering in my head and all that stuff, and I want to write about those things.

~George R. R. Martin

Topics: About Alive Bubble Characters Day Head Ideas Inside Kind Like Me Next One Day Stuff Things Those Up Want Whispering Write

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: September 20th, 1948

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