American - Author | September 20, 1948 -
When I'm writing from a character's viewpoint, in essence I become that character; I share their thoughts, I see the world through their eyes and try to feel everything they feel.
George R. R. Martin
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In my 10 years that I spent out in TV and film, I had my shares of frustrations and annoyances and disappointments, but also I think it was, in the long run, it was very good for me in a whole bunch of ways.
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I'm one of those writers who say, 'I've enjoy having written.'
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I knew that, when writing a book, you're not constrained by a budget. You're not constrained by what you can do, in terms of the special effects technology. You're not limited to any particular running time.
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I wrote six pilots, none of which ever got picked up. When you stop trying, it then it falls in your lap.
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I write from this tight third-person viewpoint, where each chapter is seen through the eyes of one individual character. When I'm writing that character, I become that character and identify with that character.
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I'm a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, and they had a profound effect on me. I'd read other fantasy before, but none of them that I loved like Tolkien.
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The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy.
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As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen.
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One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable.
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I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains.
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I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20 years or so and write another dozen novels, probably some sort of imaginative literature... Never again another seven-volume saga.
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