George R. R. Martin Quotes & Sayings (Page 9)

“I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.”

“I tend to write one character at a time. But I don't write the entirety of one character at a time.”

“I've never been a fast writer.”

“There has to be a level of joy of what you're doing.”

“You want people to be eager for your book; the downside is when the people forget the series even exists.”

“I knew that, when writing a book, you're not constrained by a budget. You're not constrained by what you can do, in terms of the special effects technology. You're not limited to any particular running time.”

“'Dreamsongs' allows me to show the scope of my writing - with personal commentary that puts the works in context and includes some autobiographical details intended to reveal how each piece came to be, what it represents, and how it has formed, or been informed by, my philosophy of writing.”

“I do get invitations all of the time to play actual fantasy football, by the way, but I get the feeling that I'd like it too much. I have enough demands on my time. My fans would kill me.”

“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.”

“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.”