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.
George R. R. MartinWe know truth for the cruel instrument it is. Beauty is infinitely preferable to truth.
George R. R. MartinBlack moleskin gloves covered his hands; the right because it was burned, the left because a man felt half a fool wearing only one glove.
George R. R. MartinSomething about the howling of a wolf took a man right out of his here and now and left him in a dark forest of the mind, running naked before the pack.
George R. R. MartinI feel satisfaction at the end of the day when I've written a scene that I really like or when I write a good line of dialogue that I read out to my wife or something like that. But there's also days where it's just bloody agony and I go, 'ugh, this is such crap! Why did I think I had any talent?
George R. R. Martin