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1. "Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories." ~ George R. R. Martin
2. "I work for two years on a book and it comes out and two days later I've got my first e-mail: When is the next one coming out?" ~ George R. R. Martin
3. "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
4. "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
5. "I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains." ~ George R. R. Martin
6. "An awful lot of fantasy, and even some great fantasy, falls into the mistake of assuming that a good man will be a good king, that all that is necessary is to be a decent human being and when you're king everything will go swimmingly." ~ George R. R. Martin
7. "All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful." ~ George R. R. Martin
8. "I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters." ~ George R. R. Martin
9. "I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story." ~ George R. R. Martin
10. "I suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic." ~ George R. R. Martin
11. "I watch NFL football on Sundays. I enjoy gaming with friends, meaning role-playing games; I still enjoy going to conventions and traveling." ~ George R. R. Martin
12. "I worked out of Hollywood for 10 years and I had my heart broken half a dozen times, so I know all the things that can go wrong." ~ George R. R. Martin
13. "'Rome' was one of my favourite shows, and I wish HBO had given it three more seasons 'cause I would have loved to continue watching it." ~ George R. R. Martin
14. "The cable makers are the ones who are willing to take risks and do something original and push the envelope some." ~ George R. R. Martin
15. "There is magic in my universe, but it's pretty low magic compared to other fantasies." ~ George R. R. Martin
16. "Unfortunately in television, for whatever reason, fantasy became thought of as a kids' genre." ~ George R. R. Martin
17. "A lot of writing takes place in the subconscious, and it's bound to have an effect." ~ George R. R. Martin
18. "Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne, N.J." ~ George R. R. Martin
19. "Don't write outlines; I hate outlines." ~ George R. R. Martin
20. "I had a couple of friends, but I was mostly the kid with his nose in a book." ~ George R. R. Martin
21. "I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separated at birth." ~ George R. R. Martin
22. "I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings." ~ George R. R. Martin

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I'm engaged in the dance of the ages and the search for a song to go with it. Though Templeton's A Veritable Smorgasbord is a well-deserving classic, it's a stanza too short for my morphing existence. So I write my own."
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