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George R. R. Martin

George Raymond Richard Martin (born George Raymond Martin; September 20, 1948) is an American novelist and short-story writer in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres, screenwriter, and television producer. He is best known for his series of epic fantasy novels, A Song of Ice and Fire, which was later adapted into the HBO series Game of Thrones (2011–present).

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Why do our dreams become so much smaller when they finally come true?

Become, Dream, Dreams, Our Dreams, Smaller, True

I had these cheap alien toys and I made up stories for them. They were space pirates. They didn’t have names so I made up names. These were the first stories I wrote. Even as a little kid I was thinking about torture.

Cheap, Kids, Made Up Stories, Thinking, Torture, Wrote

I think my very earliest stories were all intellectual exercises and I was writing from experiences I had never had about characters who were about an inch deep.

Character, Characters, Earliest, Exercise, Intellectual, Writing

I will take what is mine with fire and blood.

Blood, Daenerys, Fire, Take

A lord must learn that sometimes words can accomplish what swords cannot.

Accomplish, Learn, Lord, Sometimes, Words

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

Learn, May, Song, Sorrow

I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains.

Character, Grey, Hero, Long, Stereotypical, Villains

He wants you to smile and smell sweet and be his lady love. He wants to hear you recite all your pretty little words the way the septa taught you. He wants you to love him. . . and fear him.

Fear, Lady, Pretty, Smell, Sweet, Want

Gods be good, why would any man ever want to be king? When everyone was shouting King in the North, King in the North, I told myself. . . swore to myself. . . that I would be a good king, as honorable as Father, strong, just, loyal to my friends and brave when I faced my enemies. . . now I can't even tell one from the other.

Everyone, Father, King, Kings, Strong, Told

All dwarfs are bastards in their father's eyes

Bastards, Dwarfs, Eye, Eyes, Father, Thrones

It all goes back and back," Tyrion thought, "to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance in our steads.

Children, Dance, Father, Fathers, Mother, Thought

A man agrees with god as a raindrop agrees with the storm

Agrees, Men, Raindrop, Raindrops, Storm

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.

Book, Books, Copies, Majority, Two

His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin.

Black, Crowning, Fear, Sin, Soft, Thick

Tyrion: My gentle sister seems to have mistaken me for Ned Stark. Bronn: I hear he was taller. Tyrion: Not after Joff took off his head.

Bronn, Gentle, Mistaken, Stark, Starks, Taller

Jon Snow had dreamed of leading men to glory just as King Daeron had, of growing up to be a conqueror. Now he was a man grown and the Wall was his, yet all he had were doubts. He could not even seem to conquer those.

Doubts, Dreamed, Growing Up, Kings, Men, Wall

Mother said," mocked the king. "Don't be childish. " "We're children," Myrcella declared haughtily. "We're supposed to be childish. " The Hound laughed. "She has you there.

Children, King, Kings, Mother, Myrcella

Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.

Old Friends, Say, Stories, Time, Used

Ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.

Large, Man, Men, Shadow, Small, Thrones

A true man does what he will, not what he must.

Doe, Man, Men, True, True Man

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