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.

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  Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.

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  It's like these ideas, these characters, kind of bubble up inside me, and one day they're not there

• George R. R. Martin:

  There has to be a level of joy of what you're doing.

• George R. R. Martin:

  I can see a scene in my head, and when I try to get it down in words on paper, the words are clunky

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  One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of writin

• George R. R. Martin:

  Boy, there are days where I get up and say 'Where the hell did my talent go? Look at this crap that

• George R. R. Martin:

  Writing is hard. I mean, I sit there and work at it.

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  I've said in many interviews that I like my fiction to be unpredictable. I like there to be conside