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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

Topics: Been Contract Deadlines Early Good Knew Myself Never Novel Novels Writing Wrote

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Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're starting fantasy, don't start with a nine-book series.

~George R. R. Martin

Topics: After Climbing Everest Fantasy Mount Mount Everest Rock Series Short Short Stories Start Starting Stories Taking Up Were You

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The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems like real life is flickering by and you're hardly a part of it. You remember the events in your books better than you remember the events that actually took place when you were writing them.

~George R. R. Martin

Topics: About Actually Being Better Books Events Flickering Hardly Life Like Lose Odd Part Place Real Real Life Remember Seems Sometimes Tend Than Them Thing Took Were Writer Writing You Your Yourself

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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.

~George R. R. Martin

Topics: Books Bores Characters Come Die Difficult Difficult Time Exactly Going How Know Live Me More Nothing Out Pages Read Surprise Than Time Turns Twists Two Want Where You

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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

Topics: Anything Computer Ever Files God God Help Happens Head Help Know Me Most Paper Really You

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I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China and Liberia and England and Denmark and whatever, and I learned all the different flags, and I tried to imagine what it would be like to be voyaging on some of these ships.

~George R. R. Martin

Topics: Back China Denmark Different Encyclopedia England Flags Had Imagine Learned Like List Look Ships Some Tried Whatever Would I Tried

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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

Topics: Crap Fantasy Fiction Literary Literary Fiction Mystery Science Science Fiction Yes

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There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings.

~George R. R. Martin

Topics: Beings Examples Good Human Human Beings Kings Medieval Nevertheless Some Terrible Were Who

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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

Topics: Been Course Effective Enough Good Good Man Man Never Ruler A Good Man

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There are writers, and I know some of them, who are very disciplined. Who write, like, four pages a day, every day. And it doesn't matter if their dog got run over by a car that day, or they won the Irish sweepstakes. I'm not one of those writers.

~George R. R. Martin

Topics: Car Day Disciplined Dog Every Every Day Four Got Irish Know Like Matter Over Pages Run Some Them Those Very Who Won Write Writers

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: September 20th, 1948

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