George R.R. Martin
George Raymond Richard "R.R." Martin was born September 20, 1948, in Bayonne, New Jersey. His father was Raymond Collins Martin, a longshoreman, and his mother was Margaret Brady Martin. He has two sisters, Darleen Martin Lapinski and Janet Martin Patten.
Martin attended Mary Jane Donohoe School and Marist High School. He began writing very young, selling monster stories to other neighborhood children for pennies, dramatic readings included. Later he became a comic book fan and collector in high school, and began to write fiction for comic fanzines (amateur fan magazines). Martin's first professional sale was made in 1970 at age 21: The Hero, sold to Galaxy, published in February, 1971 issue. Other sales followed.
In 1970 Martin received a B.S. in Journalism from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, graduating summa cum laude. He went on to complete a M.S. in Journalism in 1971, also from Northwestern.
As a conscientious objector, Martin did alternative service 1972-1974 with VISTA, attached to Cook County Legal Assistance Foundation. He also directed chess tournaments for the Continental Chess Association from 1973-1976, and was a Journalism instructor at Clarke College, Dubuque, Iowa, from 1976-1978. He wrote part-time throughout the 1970s while working as a VISTA Volunteer, chess director, and teacher.
In 1975 he married Gale Burnick. They divorced in 1979, with no children. Martin became a full-time writer in 1979. He was writer-in-residence at Clarke College from 1978-79.
Moving on to Hollywood, Martin signed on as a story editor for Twilight Zone at CBS Television in 1986. In 1987 Martin became an Executive Story Consultant for Beauty and the Beast at CBS. In 1988 he became a Producer for Beauty and the Beast, then in 1989 moved up to Co-Supervising Producer. He was Executive Producer for Doorways, a pilot which he wrote for Columbia Pictures Television, which was filmed during 1992-93.
Martin's present home is Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is a member of Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America (he was South-Central Regional Director 1977-1979, and Vice President 1996-1998), and of Writers' Guild of America, West.
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“Nunca te esqueças de quem és, porque de certeza que o mundo não o fará. Faz disso a tua força. Assim nunca será a tua fraqueza. Arma-te com essa lembrança, e nunca poderá ser usada para te magoar" Tyrion”
“A lord may love the men that he commands, but he cannot be a friend to them. One day he may need to sit in judgement on them, or send them forth to die.”
“Se solo potessi portarla a Grande Inverno…donarle un fiore colto nei giardini vetrati, farla banchettare nella sala grande, mostrarle i re di pietra sui loro troni. Potremmo fare il bagno nelle sorgenti calde, e fare l’amore sotto il grande albero-cuore, con gli antichi dei a proteggerci".”
“Some doors are best left closed.”
“Prince Rhaegar loved his Lady Lyanna, and thousands died for it.”
“Rubies flew like drops of blood from the chest of a dying prince, and he sank to his knees in the water and with his last breath murmured a woman's name.”
“The world preferred to forget that men who knew how to heal also knew how to kill.”
“The day you make them all is the day you stop improving. - Alleras”
“Harsh justice is still justice.”
“I have more concern for my nephew's welfare than for Lannister pride.”
“A thousand deaths would still be less than he deserves.”
“Anyone can be killed."- Arya Stark”
“Some men think because they're afraid to do.”
“The bad part is you freeze your balls off, but since you're not allowed to breed anyway, I don't suppose that matters.”
“Jaime smiled. "I hope you're not thinking of taking the black on us, sweet brother."Tyrion laughed. "What, me, celibate? The whores would go begging from Dorne to Casterly Rock. No, I just want to stand on top of the Wall and piss off the edge of the world.”
“Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.”
“None of us is ever ready,' he (Ned) said.'For knighthood?''For death.”
“I don't want to be a queen. I want to be the queen.”
“We're children. We're supposed to be childish.”
“The oft repeated jape about his father was just another lie, Lord Tywin Lannister in the end did not shit gold.”
“I buried him with mine own hands, in a place he showed me once when I was a squire at Storm’s End. No one shall ever find him there to disturb his rest.” He looked at Jaime defiantly. “I will defend King Tommen with all my strength, I swear it. I will give my life for his if need be. But I will never betray Renly, by word or deed. He was the king that should have been. He was the best of them.”
“Why ask for truth," Ser Barristan said softly, "if you close your ears to it?”
“He may not look as tall or strong as some, but he is worth more than all of them." - Lysa”
“Sooner would be better than later, and now would be better than sooner." - Tyrion”
“We will fight a battle, and then we will rest. Alive or dead, we'll rest." - Jon Snow”
“Is it all lies, forever and ever, everyone and everything?" - Sansa”
“Do you believe in ghosts, Maester?" [Jaime] asked Qyburn.The man's face grew strange. "Once, at the Citadel, I came into an empty room and saw an empty chair. Yet I knew a woman had been there, only a moment before. The cushion was dented where she'd sat, the cloth was still warm, and her scent lingered in the air. If we leave our smells behind us when we leave a room, surely something of our souls must remain when we leave this life?”
“In this light she could almost be a beauty, he thought. In this light she could almost be a knight." - Jaime”
“We look up at the same stars and see such different things.”
“Is it treason to say the truth? A bitter truth, but no less true for that.”
“Not everyone who spoke you friendly was really your friend." - Arya”
“I left the next morning... for a place where a kiss was not a crime and a man could wear any cloak he chose.' - Mance Rayder”
“You promised him vengeance as well.''I promised him justice.''Call it what you will. It still comes down to blood." - Tywin & Tyrion”
“Terror filled her. She could not go back and she was afraid to stay here, but how could she go on?" - Dany”
“They always seemed to know everything, but now there is only me, and it seems I know nothing, not even my duty. How can I do my duty if I do not know where it lies?" - Catelyn”
“Some lights cast more than one shadow. Stand before nightfall and you'll see for yourself. The flames shift and dance, never still. The shadows grow tall and short, and every man casts a dozen. Some are fainter than others, that's all. Well, men cast shadows across the future, as well. One shadow or many." - Stannis”
“Have you ever considered that too many answers are the same as no answers at all?" - Tyrion”
“Maester Luwin says there's nothing in dreams that a man need fear.''There is,' said Jojen.'What?''The past. The future. The truth." - Bran & Jojen”
“You are the winged wolf, but you will never fly... unless you open your eye." - Jojen”
“If he didn't talk about it, maybe he would forget. He had never wanted to remember. It might not even be a true remembering." - Bran”
“He watched them from a distance, as if he still sat in the window of his bedchamber, looking down on the yard below, seeing everything yet a part of nothing." - Bran”
“He did not know whether he ought to be delighted or terrified. Perhaps a smidge of both." - Tyrion”
“The longer he lived, the more Tyrion realized that nothing was simple and little was true.”
“You look very elegant today, my lord.""I'm wounded. I strive to look elegant every day." - Tyrion & Littlefinger”
“Do you hate her?""Almost as much as I lover her." - Dany & Ser Jorah”
“There are ghosts everywhere," Ser Jorah said softly. "We carry them with us wherever we go.”
“They will not love me, you say? When have they ever loved me? How can I lose something I have never owned? - Stannis”
“Neither's the one you get, less you want me to see if your apple's ripe, yet. - Yoren”
“Abed, the walls pressed close and the ceiling hung heavy above him; abed, the room was his cell and Winterfell his prison. Yet outside his windows, the wide world still called. - Bran”
“Lawless men are everywhere in this dark time, oh, yes. Men with cold steel and colder hearts. - Varys”