I.B. George Quotes

I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces for fanzines, and I've written for Hollywood.

Kill me, and be cursed. You are no king of mine.

I just need to rest, that’s all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a little.

Any act can be a prayer, if done as well as we are able.

I think life is a jape. Yours, mine, everyone's

Why do our dreams become so much smaller when they finally come true?

Kind? How boring that would be. I aspire to be wicked.

And the mystery knight should defeat all challengers and name the wolf maid the queen of love and beauty.

I've written some standalone novels, but a book series allows fans in. There's much more intense involvement.

Why ask for truth," Ser Barristan said softly, "if you close your ears to it?

Of course it’s not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.

Choosing... it has always hurt. And always will. I know.

The morning air was dark with the smoke of burning gods.

A sweet face oft hides a sinner's heart.

Truly, sister, you were born to be a widow. (Tyrion to Cersei)

I am loyal to my beloved Joffrey. (Sansa) No doubt. As loyal as a deer surrounded by wolves. (Tyrion) Lions, she whispered without thinking.

They hate you because you act like you're better than they are

If we leave our smells behind us when we leave a room, surely something of our souls must remain when we leave this life?" - Qyburn

Will you make a song for him?' the woman asked. 'He has a song,' the man replied. 'He is the prince that was promised, and his is the song of ice and fire.

There is magic in my universe, but it's pretty low magic compared to other fantasies.

The air smelled of paper and dust and years.

If you die before you say her name, ser, I will hunt you through all seven hells.

Better to mock the game than to play and lose.

She had never loved him so much as she did in that instant.

It is better to be seen as cruel than foolish.

Men see what they expect to see.

Jon: Have you seen the wall? | Sam: I'm fat, not blind.

The most important thing for any aspiring writer, is to read! And not just the sort of thing you're trying to write, be that fantasy, SF, comic books, whatever. You need to read everything.

We only make peace with our enemies. That's why it's called making peace.

Eat your heart out, Rowling. Maybe you have billions of dollars and my Hugo, but you don't have readers like these.

The choice is yours, brother. Live a thrall or die a king. Do you dare to fly? Unless you take the leap, you’ll never know." - Euron Greyjoy

Jon lied ... loudly, as if that could make it true.

Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the Other, who would drag us all into his eternal night.

Catelyn wanted to run to him, to kiss his sweet brow, to wrap him in her arms so tightly that he would never come to harm.

It had been more of a wish, actually, but it sounded better to call it a dream.

I knew a man once who told me that I smiled at the wrong things." "Do you? "Only by the light of those who smile at nothing.

Sure. Some of the reviews have been very flattering, but the series is not finished yet. The end needs to be as strong as the beginning.

You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall.

Kings are falling like leaves this autumn.

Names are hard. I have a library of What to Name Your Baby books, and I’m always picking up new books, and books of baby names from other countries. I like cool-sounding names.

I have the virtue of being still amongst the living. Some would say that is my only virtue.

The sun will soon be setting, and corpses make poor company by night. These were dark and dangerous men, alive. I doubt that death will have improved them.

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?

You lie. Worse, you lie poorly.

But Tolkien doesn't ask the question: What was Aragorn's tax policy?

The eunuch had looked death in the face, so near he might have kissed her on the lips.

If you would wed, wed. If not, take your pleasure where you find it. There's little enough of it in this world." - Oberyn

He was no dragon, Dany thought, curiously calm. Fire cannot kill a dragon

They will not love me, you say? When have they ever loved me? How can I lose something I have never owned? - Stannis

There are ghosts everywhere," Ser Jorah said softly. "We carry them with us wherever we go.