George R.R. Martin Quotes

In this world, only winter is certain

Sweet smells are sometimes used to cover foul ones.

There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings.

When I am writing best, I really am lost in my world. I lose track of the outside world. I have a difficult time balancing between my real world and the artificial world.

Of course you know him. Everyone knows a pear-shaped man.

She just laughed in his face and told him she'd sooner crawl in a bed with his father's leeches before she'd crawl in one with him. She stopped laughing when he put his knife in her.

'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.

One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable.

Don't write outlines; I hate outlines.

I had a couple of friends, but I was mostly the kid with his nose in a book.

I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters.

I have always been a dark writer.

I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separated at birth.

I have idea files of books that I want to write one of these days, stories I want to write one of these days, but I'll probably never get to them.

I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story.

I wanted to write a big novel, something epic in scale.

I watch NFL football on Sundays. I enjoy gaming with friends, meaning role-playing games; I still enjoy going to conventions and traveling.

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.

I wrote six pilots, none of which ever got picked up. When you stop trying, it then it falls in your lap.

I've said in many interviews that I like my fiction to be unpredictable. I like there to be considerable suspense.

Black moleskin gloves covered his hands; the right because it was burned, the left because a man felt half a fool wearing only one glove.

His time was past, her handmaid Irri declared. No man should live longer than his teeth.

It was astonishing to see how angry Cersei could wax over accusations she knew perfectly well to be true.

Littlefinger looked like a boy who had just taken a furtive bite from a honeycomb. He was TRYING to watch for bees, but the honey was so sweet.

The white horse and the black one wheeled like lovers at a harvest dance, the riders throwing steel in place of kisses.

Have a care how you speak to me, Imp. Doubtless he meant to sound threatening, but that absurd wisp of a mustache ruined the effect.

The Beauty raised her eyes, the only part of her that was truly beautiful.

Schemes are like fruit, they require a certain ripening.

One of your northmen hit me with a morningstar during the battle on the Green Fork. I escaped him by falling off my horse. (Tyrion)

The High Septon once told me that as we sin, so do we suffer.

I stayed sober for this?

If a man paints a target on his chest, he should expect that sooner or later someone will loose an arrow on him.

She remembered the godswood, drooping branches heavy with moisture, and the sound of her brother’s laughter as he chased her through piles of damp leaves.

That man said he’d take your head too.” “Well, as to that,” Yoren said, “if he can get it off my shoulders, he’s welcome to it.

Mother, I want to see him fly!

Viserys sold my mother's crown, and men called him a beggar. I shall keep this one, so men will call me a queen. (Daenerys)

I love you too, sweet sister. But you're a fool. A beautiful golden fool.

Jon Snow: I'm not afraid to die. Mormont: Nor life, I hope.

I am Cersei of House Lannister, a lion of the Rock, the rightful queen of these Seven Kingdoms, trueborn daughter of Tywin Lannister. And hair grows back.

...spend my time warring and whoring, that's what I was made for.

You must put these dreams aside, they will only break your heart.

I bet this is a brothel," she whispered to Gendry. "You don't even know what a brothel is." "I do so," she insisted. "It's like an inn, with girls.

She walked fast, to keep ahead of her fear.

It was bitingly cold up here,and the wind pulled at his clothes like an insistent lover.

What could he have done, one man against so many?" He could have tried, Brienne thought.

If I wanted to honor you, I´d let you retire. I am planing to make you run the kingdom and fight the wars while I eat and drink

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.

Once, I cut off a man's head, but he did not know it until he tried to brush his hair. Then it fell off.

I heard of a man who had a razor made of Valyrian steel. He cut his head off trying to shave.

The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true.