American - Author | September 20, 1948 -
I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.
George R. R. Martin
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There are writers, and I know some of them, who are very disciplined. Who write, like, four pages a day, every day. And it doesn't matter if their dog got run over by a car that day, or they won the Irish sweepstakes. I'm not one of those writers.
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Nothing bores me more than books where you read two pages and you know exactly how it's going to come out. I want twists and turns that surprise me, characters that have a difficult time and that I don't know if they're going to live or die.
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As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but also for hate. I wanted to write those kinds of complex character in a fantasy, and not just have all the good people get together to fight the bad guy.
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I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separated at birth.
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I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters.
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I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giants or elves or dwarves, or whatever they are, they're still human, and the human heart is still in conflict with the self.
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You can have the power to destroy, but it doesn't give you the power to reform, or improve, or build.
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I suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic.
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I've said in many interviews that I like my fiction to be unpredictable. I like there to be considerable suspense.
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There is magic in my universe, but it's pretty low magic compared to other fantasies.
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Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're starting fantasy, don't start with a nine-book series.
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