George R.R. Martin
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Biography
George Raymond Richard Martin, also known by the initials GRRM, is an American author, screenwriter, and television producer. Martin is best known as the author of the epic fantasy novel series A Song of Ice and Fire, which was adapted by HBO into the Primetime Emmy Award–winning television series Game of Thrones (2011–2019) and its prequel series House of the Dragon (2022–present).
"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one."
"... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge."
"Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you."
"Sleep is good, he said, and books are better."
"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."
"Fear cuts deeper than swords."
"Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word."
"Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness."
"Winter is coming."
"When you play a game of thrones you win or you die."
"The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die."
"Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it."
"The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that."
"Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities."
"People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up."
"It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise."
"Laughter is poison to fear."
"We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously."
"A bruise is a lesson... and each lesson makes us better."
"If you need help bark like a dog."- Gendry. "That's stupid. If I need help I'll shout help."- Arya"
"I crossed a thousand leagues to come to you, and lost the best part of me along the way. Don't tell me to leave."
"A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor. Yet soon or late in every man's life comes a day when it is not easy, a day when he must choose. (Maester Aemon)"
"Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written."
"...How would you like to die, Tyrion son of Tywin?""In my own bed, with a belly full of wine and a maiden's mouth around my cock, at the age of eighty,"he replied."
"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."