“I was always intensely Romantic, even when I was too young to understand what that meant.”

— George Raymond Richard Martin

infinity plus interview (2001)
Context: I was always intensely Romantic, even when I was too young to understand what that meant. But Romanticism has its dark side, as any Romantic soon discovers... which is where the melancholy comes in, I suppose. I don't know if this is a matter of artistic influences so much as it is of temperament. But there's always been something in a twilight that moves me, and a sunset speaks to me in a way that no sunrise ever has.

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American writer, screenwriter and television producer 1948

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