George R. R. Martin
Overview
George Raymond Richard Martin (born September 20, 1948), sometimes referred to as GRRM, is an American
United States
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 author
Author
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 and screenwriter
Screenwriter
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 of fantasy, horror
Horror fiction
Horror fiction also Horror fantasy is a philosophy of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, inducing feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie atmosphere. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural...

, and science fiction
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

. He is best known for A Song of Ice and Fire
A Song of Ice and Fire
A Song of Ice and Fire is a series of epic fantasy novels by American novelist and screenwriter George R. R. Martin. Martin began writing the series in 1991 and the first volume was published in 1996. Originally planned as a trilogy, the series now consists of five published volumes; a further two...

, his bestselling series of epic fantasy novels that HBO adapted for their dramatic pay-cable series Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones (TV series)
Game of Thrones is an American medieval fantasy television series created for HBO by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss. Based on author George R. R. Martin's best-selling A Song of Ice and Fire series of fantasy novels, the first of which is called A Game of Thrones, the television series debuted in...

. Martin was selected by Time
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 magazine as one of the "2011 Time 100," a list of the "most influential people in the world."
George R.
Quotations

In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.

Interview with Infinity Plus, February 2001

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

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

I was always intensely Romantic, even when I was too young to understand what that meant.

Interview with Infinity Plus, February 2001

Art is not a democracy. People don't get to vote on how it ends.

Interview with GamePro magazine, 8 April 2003 File:Protoplanetary disk.jpg|144px|thumb|right|I think that for science fiction, fantasy, and even horror to some extent, the differences are skin-deep. [...] The real difference, to my mind, is between romantic fiction, which all these genres are a part of, and mimetic fiction, or naturalistic fiction.

Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the crudest is the one called love.

from the novella Meathouse Man

 
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