I thought I would, you know, go to college, get to law school, finish, and then get a job and work as a lawyer, but that proved to be not a good fit... →
Demetri Martin
I was a good student when I was a kid, and I did everything I was supposed to do, and I got A's.
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... →
George R. R. Martin
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:... →
Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.
There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings.
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... →
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.
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... →
Many writers will get a contract by selling chapters and outlines or something like that. I wrote the entire novel, and when it was all finished, I... →