Over the years, more than one reviewer has describ... -George R. R. Martin

Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire', as historical fiction about history that never happened, flavoured with a dash of sorcery and spiced with dragons. I take that as a compliment.

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George R. R. Martin Quotes to Explore

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 i...

Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire', as historical fiction about history that never happe...

The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and The Yiddish Policemen's Union. He's a writer who's dete...

You can have the power to destroy, but it doesn't give you the power to reform, or improve, or build....

I find religion and spirituality fascinating. I would like to believe this isn't the end and there's something more, but I can't convince the rational...

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 fan...

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

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We have plenty of examples from twentieth-century history where, out of fear of liberalism or Communism, religious conservatives made alliances with s...

I did 'Call of Duty Modern Warfare' as Gaz, then I did Ghost in 'Modern Warfare 2,' which has become one of the most iconic figures in the history of ...

There is a big push that we all are engaged in, in wanting to have the newest in innovation - and I think that's all really great. But I also feel tha...

I believe this generation should know their history and they should know that the struggle's not over yet....

Throughout history, cities have been associated with incredible bursts of creative energy - the Renaissance in Florence, or modernism in Paris. London...

I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it's because I grew up on a love of history, philosophy, s...

There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia's history and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were ...

When I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State after Grinnell, I joined the moribund remnants of the Actor's Workshop, unti...

In the entire history of the human species, every tool we've invented has been to expand muscle power. All except one. The integrated circuit, the com...

Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire', as historical fiction about history that never happe...