George R. R. Martin Ages Quotations

I am only a little lion, child, and I vow, I shall not savage you.

I can see a scene in my head, and when I try to get it down in words on paper, the words are clunky; the scene is not coming across right. So frustrating. And there are days where it keeps flowing. Open the floodgates, and there it is. Pages and pages coming. Where the hell does this all come from? I don't know.

‎[Melisandre] "His Grace is growing fond of you." [Jon] "I can tell. He only threatened to behead me twice." Page 58

I will teach them what it means to put a lion in a cage, Cersei thought.

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.

He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world.

There are writers, and I know some of them, who are very disciplined. Who write, like, four pages a day, every day. And it doesn't matter if their dog got run over by a car that day, or they won the Irish sweepstakes. I'm not one of those writers.