George R.R. Martin Quotes

You make us look bad', complained Toad. 'You looked bad before I ever met you', Jon told him.

I don't ever want t' leave this cave, Jon Snow. Not ever

I am the blood of the dragon. Do not presume to teach me lessons.

Make no mistake, dwarf. I fought for you, but I do not love you'' ''It was your blade I needed'' Tyrion said, ''not your love.

Every once in a very long while, Lord Tywin Lannister would actually threaten to smile; he never did, but the threat alone was terrible to behold.

You mistake patience for forbearance.

You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat.

You look pale, Sansa," Cersei observed. "Is your red flower still blooming?" "Yes" "How apt. The men will bleed out there, and you in here.

I can be humbler than anyone.

I've been very lucky. There were times when I was afraid I would never sell another book, but I never doubted I'd write another book.

How do you fight someone if you can't hit them?

Cersei Lannister: I shall wear this as a badge of honor. Robert Barathon: Wear it in silence or I'll honor you again.

That little touch is not in the books, but I wish it had been in the books because it was a great addition.

If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it’s a superficial experience isn’t it?

Start trying to work out who deserves what, and before long you'll spend the rest of your days weeping for each and every person in the world.

Bear Island knows no king but the King in the North, whose name is STARK.

Only lies offend me, never honest counsel.

Power resides where men believe it to reside.

...Ned always said that the man who passes the sentence should swing the blade, though he never took any joy in the duty. But I would, oh, yes.

It was a story called ‘The Hero’ which I sold to Galaxy magazine in 1970, for $94.

When you have known the kiss of a flaying knife, a laugh loses all its power to hurt you.

A bear! A bear! All black and brown and covered in hair!

The women are the strong ones, truly.

I thought my song was beginning that day, but it was almost done.

I know nothing and perhaps I never will.

I think my very earliest stories were all intellectual exercises and I was writing from experiences I had never had about characters who were about an inch deep.

You can't just pick people for their hair color or the shape of their face. You have to go with the best actors.

One of the hardest parts of writing is writing from the gut or the heart or something like that rather than intellectually.

I'm fond of all my characters so every time one doesn't make the cut I'm a little disappointed although I understand it.

I know who's going to be on the throne [in the Gameof Thrones], at the end, so I better not say. But, there will be a few people sitting on it, before the end.

Most people were startled to find out there were books that preceded Game Of Thrones. I'm a case of working forty years to be an overnight success.

Nothing' isn't better or worse than anything. Nothing is just... nothing." Arya Stark

It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to.

Fat men take a cushion with them wherever they go.

The hard truths are the ones to hold tight.-The Old Bear, A Game of Thrones

You ought to be blowing me kisses, wench.

Dream anything hard enough, and it can be yours.

Why won't they let me be? I just need to rest, that's all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a little.

This was how an enemy should be dealt with: with a dagger, not a declaration.

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.""Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?""How else? Though not till I'm done reading.

What are you doing to me?” he asked the crow, tearful. Teaching you how to fly. “I can’t fly!” You’re flying right now. “I’m falling!” Every flight begins with a fall, the crow said.

Be careful you don't cut yourself. The edges are sharp enough to shave with.''Girls don't shave', Arya said.'Maybe they should. Have you ever seen the septa's legs?

Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts, " he declared. "I doubt if he could kill a duck."Tyrion shrugged. "Fetch the duck.

The world the Citadel is building has no place in it for sorcery or prophecy or glass candles, much less for dragons.

I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.

He'll be down with the books. My old septon used to say books are dead men talking. Dead men should keep quiet is what I say. No one wants to hear a dead man's yabber.

Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?''That is the only time a man can be brave, ' his father told him.

When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.

On armageddon day, ' Sandy said, 'both armies will think they fight for good. And both of them will be wrong.

Gold has its uses, but war is won with iron.