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One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable.

~George R. R. Martin

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I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20 years or so and write another dozen novels, probably some sort of imaginative literature... Never again another seven-volume saga.

~George R. R. Martin

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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

Topics: About Books Cheap Dies Easy Easy Way Going Nasty Out Sort Story Things Think Ultimately War Wars Way Which Write You I Think

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I think that, in all of my time, I got just one fan letter, from an NFL fullback named Darian Barnes. NFL players might not have enough time for my books.

~George R. R. Martin

Topics: Books Enough Enough Time Fan Got Just Just One Letter Might My Time Named Players Think Time I Think Nfl

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I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I always read books, and I could go to Mars or Middle Earth or the Hyborian age.

~George R. R. Martin

Topics: Age Always Any Books Could Desire Earth Go Had Imagination Mars Middle Read Saw See Why World

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I grew up with four T.V. channels. If you missed a show, you missed it. You gotta wait a week for the next one. I'd mail-order books: take a quarter, get an envelope, send off for it and wait until it arrived. I grew up waiting for things.

~George R. R. Martin

Topics: Arrived Books Channels Envelope Four Get Gotta Grew Missed Next Off Quarter Send Show Take Things Until Up Wait Waiting Week You

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And I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations. It could be that it would take me 12 more books at six years each to get it - which means I would have to live to be 126. Which I fully intend to do, of course.

~George Saunders

Topics: Accommodate Aspirations Books Could Course Each Finally Fully Get Given Intend Know Live Me Means More Realized Six Take Which Will Would Writing Years You

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Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. The notion that it is the occasion for our cleverness fills me with baffled bitterness and anger.

~George Steiner

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A couple of weeks after that, Zebra Books phoned with an offer, and I accepted.

~George Stephen

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So, in effect, my first sale was actually two books.

~George Stephen

Topics: Actually Books Effect First Sale Two

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