David Benioff Quotes

I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.

I've never flown a kite.

Every time something bad happens, like we lose a day because of weather or an actor gets injured or anything else happens, the schedule has to change. It's the most challenging Tetris puzzle.

This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.

Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying.

Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.

Contrary to popular belief, the experience of terror does not make you braver. Perhaps though, it is easier to hide your fear when you're afraid all the time.

There's never been a fantasy movie of the epic battle of good versus evil that ended with evil winning.

Hollywood screenwriters tend to have the longevity of NFL running backs. So the truth is no one can put more pressure on us than we put on ourselves.

You don't like the girl. You don't know what color eyes she has, you don't like her.

'Breaking Bad.' Because it's the best American narrative fiction of the last ten years.

To shoot a decent fight, you need to cover all the different angles, and it ends up eating a lot of days.

the lonliest sound in the world is other people making love.

I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own.

A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter.

You're a writer. Make it up.

I think, in a weird way, the reason I was drawn to screenwriting and the reason I really love doing it is because I love writing dialogue.

I was a huge fantasy geek growing up. I was the dungeon master in my D&D game.

I'm just not a natural teacher.

Perhaps a hero is someone who doesn’t register his own vulnerability. Is it courage, then, if you’re too daft to know you’re mortal?

With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it's more a polite suggestion.

Everyone knew this was the episode that was going to make or break the season.

It is actually a lot harder to sit down and write from A to Z. But for me at least, it's the only way I can do it, at this point, with any moderate success.

I like having my own story remain my story.

The longer you work in this business [movie], the more you start to be able to see the carpentry. You can see where things are going, and it's harder to surprise you, as a reader

I was half asleep but I smiled. In spite of all his irritating qualities, I couldn't help liking a man who despised a fictional character with such passion.

Fiction novels, that's my game.

The secret to winning a woman is calculated neglect.

Every adaptation requires that the screenwriter make difficult choices - and in particular, difficult cuts.

Don’t worry, my friend. I won’t let you die.” I was seventeen and stupid and I believed him.

So many die without our caring, decline to silence in rooms beyond hearing. We honor the dead and abhor the dying.- from the story "De Composition

It made me happy that poems are referred to in the present tense even when the poet is in the past tense.

He gave me a small, secretive smile, a smile that said he knew many things but couldn’t share them all at once.

She was not a writer herself but she was a very good reader, passionate and eclectic in her tastes, and my father had great faith in her judgments.

Too many words for one book--truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.