George R.R. Martin Quotes

Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that's too cruel.

When I sleep I turn into a wolf. Bran turned his face away and looked back out into the night. Do wolves dreams?

Some gave me soft words and some blunt, some made excuses, some promises, some only lied. In the end words are just wind.

These old knights are more cunning than you think, or they would never have lived to see their first grey hair.

Perhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a little less bad.

Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next.

Love is the bane of honor, the death of duty.

In the game of thrones, even the humblest pieces can have wills of their own. Sometimes they refuse to make the moves you've planned for them.

In my dreams, I kill him every night,' Robert admitted. 'A thousand deaths will still be less than he deserves'.

The world is full of cravens who pretended to be heroes.

Valar Morghulis - All men must die.

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.

A man agrees with god as a raindrop agrees with the storm

All dwarfs may be bastards yet not all bastards are dwarfs.

Art is not a democracy. People don't get to vote on how it ends.

Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're starting fantasy, don't start with a nine-book series.

The ones who look the most suspicious are likely innocent. It's the ones who look innocent I need to beware.

The singers make much of kings who die valiantly in battle, but your life is worth more than a song.

The common people pray for rain, healthy children and a summer that never ends. It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace.

The intelligent and efficient politician is a species virtually unknown in the galaxy. Perhaps I might secure a scraping [for my] cell library.

I never finished any of my early stories. They were all beginnings, an endless number of beginnings.

I have climbed these steps so often I know each one by name.

a man who hates music can’t be trusted, I always say.

We all dream of things we cannot have.

It is being common-born that is dangerous, when the great lords play their game of thrones.

And what lesson can we draw from Volantene history? If you want to conquer the world, you best have dragons.

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.

Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves?

Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.

An admiral without ships, a hand without fingers, in service of a king without a throne. Is this a knight who comes before us, or the answer to a child's riddle?

Fire consumes, but cold preserves.

You are an honest and honorable man...Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life.

Now you know " the crow whispered as it sat on his shoulder. "Now you know why you must live." "Why " Bran said not understanding falling falling. "Because winter is coming.

I do play all the characters, when I write them, one after another. If they actually had to film me, the only one I could play would be Samwell Tarly or Hot Pie.

Reading. That was the sport I was good at.

Men are men, vows are words, and words are wind.

A woman's life is nine parts mess to one part magic, you'll learn that soon enough...and the parts that look like magic turn out to be the messiest of all.

I want you to be afraid to turn the page (and to do that) you need to show right from the beginning that you're playing for keeps.

...and when you’ve known me longer, you’ll learn that I mean everything I say.” “Even the lies?” “Especially the lies.

What do we say to the Lord of Death?" "Not today.

Kill the boy, Jon Snow. Winter is almost upon us. Kill the boy and let the man be born.

They say night's beauties fade at dawn, and the children of wine are oft disowned in the morning light.

How I have yearned for the sound of your sweet voice,” Tyrion sighed to her. “How I have yearned to have that eunuch’s tongue pulled out with hot pincers,” Cersei replied.

And any man who must say 'I am king' is no true king at all.

Control your generosity when dealing with a chronic borrower.

You're mine," she whispered. "Mine, as I'm yours. And if we die, we die. All men must die, Jon Snow. But first, we'll live.

When treating with liars, even an honest man must lie.

If I took it away, no doubt I'd find a morningstar hidden under your pillow within a fortnight. Try not to stab your sister, whatever the provocation.

I'm honest. It's the world that's awful.

I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.