George R.R. Martin

George R.r. Martin's biography

George is often nicknamed as GRRM, George Raymond Richard Martin, George R.R. Martin, George Raymond Martin. Birthday on 20th of September means George is Virgo. Virgo is an earthy sign of Zodiac Belt. People born under this Rising Sign are practical in nature. They believe in reality and represents themselves as a strong person.

George is white american. George is agnostic.

Detailed informations about George´s schools

George studied high school - Marist High School.

George studied university - Northwestern University (B.S., Journalism, 1970; M.S. 1971).

George R.r. Martin's career

George´s main focus is to be author. George R.R. Martin is famous thanks to his epic fantasy novel series 'A Song of Ice and Fire', which were adapted into the Emmy Award-winning HBO series 'Game of Thrones'.

Is George R.r. Martin gay ?

George is known to be straight.

Awards and competitions

George R.r. Martin's Awards

• His short story "The Way of Cross and Dragon" won a 1980 Hugo Award.
• His novelette "Sandkings" won a 1980 Hugo Award.

What else you don't know about George R.r. Martin ?

George R.R. Martin's middle name is Raymond, Richard.

What George R.r. Martin has done for a first time

• His fantasy series "A Song of Ice and Fire" is set to be adapted as a television series by Home Box Office (the first one being Game of Thrones (2011)), with each novel (most of which are over 1,000 pages) being produced as an entire season.
• He owns the first issues of "The Amazing Spider-man" and "Fantastic Four".
• In the very first Comic-Con that was conducted in New York city in 1964, George was the very first person who signed up to enter the convention.
• The first science fiction book he ever read was "Have Space Suit - Will Travel" (1958) by Robert A. Heinlein. Among other authors on his favorite reads are Robert E. Howard ("Conan" series), J.R.R. Tolkien, with whom he shares the same middle initials.

George R.r. Martin's quotes

• I had a couple of friends, but I was mostly the kid with his nose in a book.
• Don't write outlines; I hate outlines.
• 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.
• As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen.
• All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful.
• A lot of writing takes place in the subconscious, and it's bound to have an effect.
• 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.
• Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.
• I work for two years on a book and it comes out and two days later I've got my first e-mail: When is the next one coming out?
• I have idea files of books that I want to write one of these days, stories I want to write one of these days, but I'll probably never get to them.
• I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.
• I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separated at birth.
• I have always been a dark writer.
• I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters.
• I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.
• I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.
• I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains.
• I know some writers can write on the road, but I'm not one of them.
• I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story.
• I watch NFL football on Sundays. I enjoy gaming with friends, meaning role-playing games; I still enjoy going to conventions and traveling.
• I wanted to write a big novel, something epic in scale.
• I tend to write one character at a time. But I don't write the entirety of one character at a time.
• I suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic.
• I spent a whole summer working on what proved to be 'A Game of Thrones'.
• I've never been good with deadlines. My early novels, I wrote by myself. No one knew I was writing a novel; I didn't have a contract.
• I've never been a fast writer.
• I'm one of those writers who say, 'I've enjoy having written.'
• I wrote six pilots, none of which ever got picked up. When you stop trying, it then it falls in your lap.
• I worked out of Hollywood for 10 years and I had my heart broken half a dozen times, so I know all the things that can go wrong.
• 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.
• One of the great things about books is you can afford to do anything.
• Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.
• I've written some standalone novels, but a book series allows fans in. There's much more intense involvement.
• I've said in many interviews that I like my fiction to be unpredictable. I like there to be considerable suspense.
• There has to be a level of joy of what you're doing.
• There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings.
• The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy.
• The cable makers are the ones who are willing to take risks and do something original and push the envelope some.
• '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.
• You can have the power to destroy, but it doesn't give you the power to reform, or improve, or build.
• Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction.
• Writing is hard. I mean, I sit there and work at it.
• Unfortunately in television, for whatever reason, fantasy became thought of as a kids' genre.
• There is magic in my universe, but it's pretty low magic compared to other fantasies.
• 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.'
• 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.
• You want people to be eager for your book; the downside is when the people forget the series even exists.
• 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.
• 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.
• I have files, I have computer files and, you know, files on paper. But most of it is really in my head. So God help me if anything ever happens to my head!
• I have done a lot of work in Hollywood myself. I worked in television for roughly 10 years, from the mid-'80s to mid-'90s. And I was on staff at a couple of shows. I did some feature films, including originals and adaptations.
• 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.
• 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.
• I think that, in all of my time, I got just one fan letter, from an NFL fullback named Darian Barnes. NFL players might not have enough time for my books.
• I never liked Gandalf the White as much as Gandalf the Grey, and I never liked him coming back. I think it would have been an even stronger story if Tolkien had left him dead.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• If you're going to write about war, which my books are about, wars are nasty things. I think it's sort of a cheap, easy way out to write a war story in which no one ultimately dies.
• If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scary thing. And I want my readers to feel that fear as they turn the page.
• I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces for fanzines, and I've written for Hollywood.
• 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.
• My characters who come back from death are worse for wear. In some ways, they're not even the same characters anymore. The body may be moving, but some aspect of the spirit is changed or transformed, and they've lost something.
• It's really irritating when you open a book, and 10 pages into it you know that the hero you met on page one or two is gonna come through unscathed, because he's the hero. This is completely unreal, and I don't like it.
• It's like these ideas, these characters, kind of bubble up inside me, and one day they're not there, and the next day they are there. They're alive, and they're whispering in my head and all that stuff, and I want to write about those things.
• The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and The Yiddish Policemen's Union. He's a writer who's determined to break down genre barriers. He's done amazing things.
• The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud between Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James. James won, and it split literature into two streams. But it's a totally false dichotomy.
• 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.
• Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire', as historical fiction about history that never happened, flavoured with a dash of sorcery and spiced with dragons. I take that as a compliment.
• 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.
• When I am writing best, I really am lost in my world. I lose track of the outside world. I have a difficult time balancing between my real world and the artificial world.
• There was part of me that wanted to see the world and travel to distant places, but I could only do it in my imagination, so I read ferociously and imagined things.
• 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.
• The vast majority of writers out there, they finish their books, and no one cares whether their book is late or ever comes out at all. And then it comes out, and two reviews are published, and it sells 12 copies.
• You always try to do your own thing. One of the things I wanted to do was to write a book that combines some of the best traits of contemporary fantasy with some of the traits of the historical novel.
• With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the special effects guy and the lighting technician: I'm all of that. So if it's good or bad, it's all up to me.
• Whether you're a history buff or a fantasy fan, Druon's epic will keep you turning pages. This was the original game of thrones. If you like 'A Song of Ice and Fire', you will love 'The Accursed Kings'.
• Whenever I switch from one character to another, there's always a few days where I really struggle because I'm changing voices and I'm changing ways of looking at the world. I'm not just flicking a switch; it's harder process than that.
• When the writing is going really well, whole days and weeks go by, and I suddenly realise I have all these unpaid bills and, my God, I haven't unpacked, and the suitcase has been sitting there for three weeks.
• I love comic books and the idea of superheroes. I tried going into writing comics after college. Fortunately, they didn't hire me, so I was forced to become rich and famous instead.
• Winter friends are friends forever.
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