Itโs being ready to accept rejection. You can work on a book for two years and get it published, and itโs like you may as well have thrown it down a well. Itโs not all champagne and doing interviews with The New York Times.
George R. R. MartinFantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli.
George R. R. MartinI rose too high, loved too hard, dared too much. I tried to grasp a star, overreached, and fell.
George R. R. MartinAlways 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. Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you. Remember that, Sansa, when you come to play the game.โ โWhat . . . what game?โ โThe only game. The game of thrones.โ -(Littlefinger)
George R. R. MartinThat night the wind was howling almost like a wolf and there were some real wolves off to the west giving it lessons.
George R. R. MartinI hate outlines. I have a broad sense of where the story is going; I know the end, I know the end of the principal characters, and I know the major turning points and events from the books, the climaxes for each book, but I don't necessarily know each twist and turn along the way. That's something I discover in the course of writing and that's what makes writing enjoyable. I think if I outlined comprehensively and stuck to the outline the actual writing would be boring.
George R. R. Martin