The cable makers are the ones who are willing to take risks and do something original and push the envelope some.
George R. R. MartinRobb: Uncle Benjen said to send you to the stables if I saw you. Jon: I have one more farewell to make. Robb: Then I haven't seen you.
George R. R. MartinHe never wanted love, though. You cannot eat love, nor buy a horse with it, nor warm your halls on a cold night.
George R. R. MartinAnd if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description of clothes, and gratuitous heraldry, because very little of this is necessary to advance the plot. But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about is advancing the plot, why read novels? We can just read Cliffs Notes.
George R. R. Martin