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George R. R. Martin — Portrait after a picture by Henry Söderlund (CC BY 4.0), via Wikimedia Commons.

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George R. R. Martin

American writer and television producer

born 1948

6 quotes, most often on Writing and Good & Evil.

In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.
infinity plus interview (2001)
- Good & Evil
Ten years from now, no one is going to care how quickly the books came out. The only thing that will matter, the only thing anyone will remember, is how good they were. That’s my main concern, and always will be.
Official blog, (July 2007)
- Writing
Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.
“Meathouse Man” (1976)
- Love
Tolkien made the wrong choice when he brought Gandalf back. Screw Gandalf. He had a great death and the characters should have had to go on without him.
On a panel at Odyssey Con 2008 (April 2008)
- Writing
The battle between good and evil is a legitimate theme for a Fantasy (or for any work of fiction, for that matter), but in real life that battle is fought chiefly in the individual human heart.
infinity plus interview (2001)
- Good & Evil
- Writing
I suppose I am still a believer in the now unfashionable “heroic” school, which says that history is shaped by individual men and women and the choices that they make, by deeds glorious and terrible.
infinity plus interview (2001)
- History

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