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'Dreamsongs' allows me to show the scope of my writing - with personal commentary that puts the works in context and includes some autobiographical details intended to reveal how each piece came to be, what it represents, and how it has formed, or been informed by, my philosophy of writing.
~ George R. R. Martin
Autobiographical
Been
Came
Commentary
Context
Details
Each
Formed
How
Informed
Intended
Me
Personal
Philosophy
Piece
Puts
Represents
Reveal
Scope
Show
Some
Works
Writing
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'Rome' was one of my favourite shows, and I wish HBO had given it three more seasons 'cause I would have loved to continue watching it.
~ George R. R. Martin
Cause
Continue
Favourite
Given
Had
HBO
I Wish
Loved
More
Rome
Seasons
Shows
Three
Watching
Wish
Would
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A lot of writing takes place in the subconscious, and it's bound to have an effect.
~ George R. R. Martin
Bound
Effect
Lot
Place
Subconscious
Takes
Writing
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All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful.
~ George R. R. Martin
Amount
Certain
Fiction
Powerful
Truth
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An awful lot of fantasy, and even some great fantasy, falls into the mistake of assuming that a good man will be a good king, that all that is necessary is to be a decent human being and when you're king everything will go swimmingly.
~ George R. R. Martin
A Good Man
Assuming
Awful
Awful Lot
Being
Decent
Even
Everything
Falls
Fantasy
Go
Good
Good Man
Great
Human
Human Being
King
Lot
Man
Mistake
Necessary
Some
Will
You
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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.
~ George R. R. Martin
Also
Bad
Bad Guy
Capacity
Character
Complex
Complex Character
Evil
Fantasy
Faulkner
Fight
Get
Get Together
Good
Good People
Great
Great Evil
Guy
Hate
Just
Kinds
Love
People
Says
Those
Together
Us
Wanted
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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.
~ George R. R. Martin
Always
Fiction
Going
Happen
Historical
Historical Fiction
I Love
Know
Love
Much
Problem
You
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Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne, N.J.
~ George R. R. Martin
Baseball
Believe
College
Covering
Department
Four
Parks
Sports
Summers
Worked
Writer
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Boy, there are days where I get up and say 'Where the hell did my talent go? Look at this crap that I'm producing here. This is terrible. Look, I wrote this yesterday. I hate this, I hate this.'
~ George R. R. Martin
Boy
Crap
Days
Did
Get
Go
Hate
Hell
Here
Look
Producing
Say
Talent
Terrible
Up
Where
Wrote
Yesterday
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Don't write outlines; I hate outlines.
~ George R. R. Martin
Hate
Outlines
Write
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Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or fantasy or western mystery stories or so-called literary stories. All those things are essentially untrue. But it has to have a truth at the core of it.
~ George R. R. Martin
About
Core
Essentially
Events
Existed
Fantasy
Fiction
Happened
Lies
Literary
Mystery
Never
People
Science
Science Fiction
So-Called
Stories
Things
Those
Truth
Untrue
Western
Whether
Who
Write
Writing
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I believe that a writer learns from every story he writes, and when you try different things, you learn different lessons. Working with other writers, as in Hollywood or in a shared world series, will also strengthen your skills, by exposing you to new ways of seeing the work, and different approaches to certain creative challenges.
~ George R. R. Martin
Also
Approaches
Believe
Certain
Challenges
Creative
Different
Different Things
Every
Exposing
He
Hollywood
I Believe
I Believe That
Learn
Learns
Lessons
New
New Ways
Other
Seeing
Series
Shared
Skills
Story
Strengthen
Things
Try
Ways
Will
Work
Working
World
World Series
Writer
Writers
Writes
You
Your
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I can see a scene in my head, and when I try to get it down in words on paper, the words are clunky; the scene is not coming across right. So frustrating. And there are days where it keeps flowing. Open the floodgates, and there it is. Pages and pages coming. Where the hell does this all come from? I don't know.
~ George R. R. Martin
Across
Come
Coming
Days
Does
Down
Flowing
Frustrating
Get
Head
Hell
I Can
Keeps
Know
Open
Pages
Paper
Right
Scene
See
Try
Where
Words
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I do get invitations all of the time to play actual fantasy football, by the way, but I get the feeling that I'd like it too much. I have enough demands on my time. My fans would kill me.
~ George R. R. Martin
Actual
Demands
Enough
Fans
Fantasy
Feeling
Football
Get
Like
Me
Much
My Time
Play
Time
Too
Too Much
Way
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I don't know if I have any particular views about women in positions of power, though I do think it's more difficult for women, particularly in a Medieval setting. They have the additional problem that they're a woman and people don't want them in a position of power in an essentially patriarchal society.
~ George R. R. Martin
About
Additional
Any
Difficult
Essentially
Know
Medieval
More
Particular
Particularly
Patriarchal
People
Position
Positions
Power
Problem
Setting
Society
Them
Think
Though
Views
Want
Woman
Women
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I find religion and spirituality fascinating. I would like to believe this isn't the end and there's something more, but I can't convince the rational part of me that that makes any sense whatsoever.
~ George R. R. Martin
Any
Believe
Convince
End
Fascinating
Find
Like
Makes
Me
More
Part
Rational
Religion
Sense
Something
Spirituality
Whatsoever
Would
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I grew up with four T.V. channels. If you missed a show, you missed it. You gotta wait a week for the next one. I'd mail-order books: take a quarter, get an envelope, send off for it and wait until it arrived. I grew up waiting for things.
~ George R. R. Martin
Arrived
Books
Channels
Envelope
Four
Get
Gotta
Grew
Missed
Next
Off
Quarter
Send
Show
Take
Things
Until
Up
Wait
Waiting
Week
You
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I had a couple of friends, but I was mostly the kid with his nose in a book.
~ George R. R. Martin
Book
Couple
Friends
Had
His
Kid
Mostly
Nose
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I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China and Liberia and England and Denmark and whatever, and I learned all the different flags, and I tried to imagine what it would be like to be voyaging on some of these ships.
~ George R. R. Martin
Back
China
Denmark
Different
Encyclopedia
England
Flags
Had
I Tried
Imagine
Learned
Like
List
Look
Ships
Some
Tried
Whatever
Would
Would-Be
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I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I always read books, and I could go to Mars or Middle Earth or the Hyborian age.
~ George R. R. Martin
Age
Always
Any
Books
Could
Desire
Earth
Go
Had
Imagination
Mars
Middle
Middle Earth
Read
Saw
See
Why
World
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