George R.R. Martin cytaty

George R.R. Martin, właśc. George Raymond Richard Martin – amerykański pisarz, twórca science fiction i fantasy, zarówno opowiadań, jak i powieści, wielokrotny zdobywca nagród Nebula i Hugo oraz wielu innych: World Fantasy, Bram Stoker Award, czy Locus Award.

Początkowo publikował pod nazwiskiem pozbawionym dwóch „R”, które dołączył, gdy zaczęto go mylić z producentem płyt The Beatles. Jego utwory przetłumaczono na kilkanaście języków, w tym polski. Jest autorem popularnej sagi fantasy Pieśń lodu i ognia, na której oparto między innymi grę fabularną A Game of Thrones oraz serial wyprodukowany przez HBO . Na podstawie jego prac nakręcono kilka filmów i odcinków serii telewizyjnych . George R.R. Martin współpracował także przy tworzeniu różnych projektów telewizyjnych .

Martin pisze za pomocą edytora tekstu WordStar 4.0 dla systemu operacyjnego DOS. Wikipedia  

✵ 20. Wrzesień 1948

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George R.R. Martin słynne cytaty

„Władca, który chowa się za płatnym katem, szybko zapomina, czym jest śmierć.”

Pieśni Lodu i Ognia, Gra o tron
Źródło: s. 18

„Można pomalować ropuchę w paski, ale nie stanie się od tego tygrysem.”

Pieśni Lodu i Ognia, Starcie królów
Źródło: s. 265

„Strach tnie głębiej niż miecze.”

Pieśni Lodu i Ognia, Gra o tron
Źródło: s. 331

„Niektóre stare rany nigdy się do końca nie zabliźniają i krwawią przy najmniejszym nawet zadrapaniu.”

Pieśni Lodu i Ognia, Gra o tron
Źródło: s. 45

„Wiedza mogła być równie cenna jak złoto, bardziej śmiercionośna niż sztylet.”

Pieśni Lodu i Ognia, Uczta dla wron
Źródło: Sieć spisków, s. 57

„(…) miłość nie zawsze jest mądra.”

Pieśni Lodu i Ognia, Nawałnica mieczy
Źródło: Stal i śnieg, s. 198

George R.R. Martin Cytaty o książkach

„Wielu moich kolegów pisarzy narzeka, gdy ukazują się ekranizacje ich książek. Nie bardzo to akceptuję. Nie widzę jakoś, żeby spieszyli się ze zwracaniem gór pieniędzy, które zarabiają na tych ekranizacjach.”

Źródło: Dlaczego hobbity nie uprawiają seksu? http://m.wyborcza.pl/wyborcza/1,105406,9836357.html?as=2, „Gazeta Wyborcza”, 24 czerwca 2011, NR 145/7268

„Oczywiście muszę być sam zadowolony z tego, co napisałem. Lubię sobie literacko dogadzać, ale ostatecznie piszę dla ludzi i chcę, żeby jak najwięcej z nich przeczytało moje książki.”

Źródło: Dlaczego hobbity nie uprawiają seksu? http://m.wyborcza.pl/wyborcza/1,105406,9836357.html?as=2, „Gazeta Wyborcza”, 24 czerwca 2011, NR 145/7268

„Uwielbiam nieprzewidywalność. Czytając książkę, chcę być zaskoczony, zaszokowany i przerażony. Chcę drżeć z niepewności. Dlatego piszę książki fantasy.”

Źródło: Dlaczego hobbity nie uprawiają seksu? http://m.wyborcza.pl/wyborcza/1,105406,9836357.html?as=2, „Gazeta Wyborcza”, 24 czerwca 2011, NR 145/7268

George R.R. Martin Cytaty o seksie

„Seks i przemoc są częścią naszego świata. Nie można pisać realistycznych powieści, udając, że w naszym życiu ich nie ma.”

Źródło: Dlaczego hobbity nie uprawiają seksu? http://m.wyborcza.pl/wyborcza/1,105406,9836357.html, „Gazeta Wyborcza”, 24 czerwca 2011, NR 145/7268

„Nawet w świecie magii nie zdarzają się cuda. Tu też trzeba trzymać się jakichś granic.”

Źródło: Dlaczego hobbity nie uprawiają seksu? http://m.wyborcza.pl/wyborcza/1,105406,9836357.html?as=2, „Gazeta Wyborcza”, 24 czerwca 2011, NR 145/7268

George R.R. Martin cytaty

„Jeśli zabijesz człowieka niechcący, będzie tak samo martwy jak wtedy, gdy zrobisz to celowo.”

Pieśni Lodu i Ognia, Nawałnica mieczy
Źródło: Stal i śnieg, s. 361

„Bliski był tego w latach pięćdziesiątych Tolkien i byłoby cudownie, gdyby nagrodzono go Noblem. Zasługiwał na to, jako jeden z najwybitniejszych autorów żyjących w dwudziestym wieku.”

o Noblu dla pisarza SF lub fantasy.
Źródło: Od „Strefy Mroku” do „Gry o tron”, z Georgem R.R. Martinem rozmawia Michał Hernes http://www.fantastyka.pl/media/pdf_bonus_2012.pdf, bonusowy dodatek do „Nowej Fantastyki”, 2012 rok.

„Miłości nie można zjeść, kupić za nią konia ani ogrzać nią swych komnat w zimną noc.”

Pieśni Lodu i Ognia, Uczta dla wron
Źródło: Cienie śmierci, s. 144

„Stajnia HBO to najlepsi ludzie, z jakimi można pracować w Kalifornii. Produkują najlepsze amerykańskie seriale. Nie mogłem sobie wymarzyć lepszych partnerów. Tworzymy cudowny zespół.”

Źródło: Od „Strefy Mroku” do „Gry o tron”, z Georgem R.R. Martinem rozmawia Michał Hernes http://www.fantastyka.pl/media/pdf_bonus_2012.pdf, bonusowy dodatek do „Nowej Fantastyki”, 2012 rok.

„Trudno jest przyjmować rozkazy od człowieka, z którego śmiejesz się za jego plecami.”

Pieśni Lodu i Ognia, Gra o tron
Źródło: s. 6

„Po głowie chodzą mi pomysły na inne powieści z gatunków takich jak SF, fantasy czy horror.”

Źródło: Od „Strefy Mroku” do „Gry o tron”, z Georgem R.R. Martinem rozmawia Michał Hernes http://www.fantastyka.pl/media/pdf_bonus_2012.pdf, bonusowy dodatek do „Nowej Fantastyki”, 2012 rok.

„Napisałem to, kiedy miałem trzynaście lat. Nie będę bronił tej opinii, chociaż wciąż uważam, że Stan tworzy fantastyczne komiksy i dokonał wielkiej rewolucji. (…) Spiderman to wspaniały bohater, ale Romeo i Julia też są bardzo dobrzy.”

w odpowiedzi na pytanie: „Popełnił pan kiedyś tekst o wyższości Stana Lee nad Szekspirem. Skąd taka teza?”
Źródło: Od „Strefy Mroku” do „Gry o tron”, z Georgem R.R. Martinem rozmawia Michał Hernes http://www.fantastyka.pl/media/pdf_bonus_2012.pdf, bonusowy dodatek do „Nowej Fantastyki”, 2012 rok.

„W ostatecznym rozrachunku słowa to tylko wiatr.”

Pieśni Lodu i Ognia, Starcie królów
Źródło: s. 15

„Skostniałe granice między literackimi gatunkami coraz bardziej się zacierają. Wierzę, że ten proces będzie trwał i doczekamy się chwili, w której autor książek fantastycznych zostanie należycie doceniony.”

o Noblu dla pisarza SF lub fantasy.
Źródło: Od „Strefy Mroku” do „Gry o tron”, z Georgem R.R. Martinem rozmawia Michał Hernes http://www.fantastyka.pl/media/pdf_bonus_2012.pdf, bonusowy dodatek do „Nowej Fantastyki”, 2012 rok.

„(…) ci, którzy umieją leczyć, potrafią również zabijać.”

Pieśni Lodu i Ognia, Starcie królów
Źródło: s. 24

George R.R. Martin: Cytaty po angielsku

“It is the people who speak to me, the men and women who once lived and loved and dreamed and grieved, just as we do.”

infinity plus interview (2001)
Kontekst: Historical processes have never much interested me, but history is full of stories, full of triumph and tragedy and battles won and lost. It is the people who speak to me, the men and women who once lived and loved and dreamed and grieved, just as we do. Though some may have had crowns on their heads or blood on their hands, in the end they were not so different from you and me, and therein lies their fascination. I suppose I am still a believer in the now unfashionable "heroic" school, which says that history is shaped by individual men and women and the choices that they make, by deeds glorious and terrible.

“The real difference, to my mind, is between romantic fiction, which all these genres are a part of, and mimetic fiction, or naturalistic fiction.”

Interview with Weird Tales (24 May 2007) http://weirdtales.net/wordpress/2007/05/24/george-rr-martin-on-magic-vs-science/
Kontekst: I think that for science fiction, fantasy, and even horror to some extent, the differences are skin-deep. I know there are elements in the field, particularly in science fiction, who feel that the differences are very profound, but I do not agree with that analysis. I think for me it is a matter of the furnishings. An elf or an alien may in some ways fulfill the same function, as a literary trope. It’s almost a matter of flavor. The ice cream can be chocolate or it can be strawberry, but it’s still ice cream. The real difference, to my mind, is between romantic fiction, which all these genres are a part of, and mimetic fiction, or naturalistic fiction.

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, the man who never reads lives only one.”

George Raymond Richard Martin książka Taniec ze smokami

Źródło: A Dance with Dragons. Jojen

“In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.”

infinity plus interview (2001)
Wariant: In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.
Kontekst: The battle between good and evil is a legitimate theme for a Fantasy (or for any work of fiction, for that matter), but in real life that battle is fought chiefly in the individual human heart. Too many contemporary Fantasies take the easy way out by externalizing the struggle, so the heroic protagonists need only smite the evil minions of the dark power to win the day. And you can tell the evil minions, because they're inevitably ugly and they all wear black.
I wanted to stand much of that on its head.
In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.

“It doesn't seem to matter what gods you pray to. We all die, in the real world and in fantasy worlds, and if there was some religion where you did not die I suspect that would be, that god would become very popular.”

Discussing the influence of real-life faiths on his work and its religious systems, Authors@Google (August 2011)
Kontekst: I think worship of death is an interesting basis for religion, because after all death is the one universal. It doesn't seem to matter what gods you pray to. We all die, in the real world and in fantasy worlds, and if there was some religion where you did not die I suspect that would be, that god would become very popular. They all promise us eternal life, but whatever.

“The battle between good and evil is a legitimate theme for a Fantasy (or for any work of fiction, for that matter), but in real life that battle is fought chiefly in the individual human heart.”

infinity plus interview (2001)
Kontekst: The battle between good and evil is a legitimate theme for a Fantasy (or for any work of fiction, for that matter), but in real life that battle is fought chiefly in the individual human heart. Too many contemporary Fantasies take the easy way out by externalizing the struggle, so the heroic protagonists need only smite the evil minions of the dark power to win the day. And you can tell the evil minions, because they're inevitably ugly and they all wear black.
I wanted to stand much of that on its head.
In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.

“They may get invited to the premiere and they come out of the premiere looking like all of their children had just been gassed, with a stunned look on their face because everything has been changed.”

On his background in Hollywood and the risks of adaptioning one's work for the screen, at Authors@Google (August 2011) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTTW8M_etko
Kontekst: Sometimes I think some of my fellow novelists who have not worked in television and film are very naive about this process. They get an offer and there's the dump truck full of money and they sign it, they cash the check and then they're not involved in the series. They may get invited to the premiere and they come out of the premiere looking like all of their children had just been gassed, with a stunned look on their face because everything has been changed.

“My own heroes are the dreamers, those men and women who tried to make the world a better place than when they found it, whether in small ways or great ones. Some succeeded, some failed, most had mixed results… but it is the effort that's heroic, as I see it. Win or lose, I admire those who fight the good fight.”

Talking about Busted Flush the Wild Cards novel, Interview on Pat's Fantasy Hotlist http://fantasyhotlist.blogspot.com/2008/12/interview-with-george-r-r-martin-and.html (December 2008)
Kontekst: With great power comes great responsibility, Stan Lee once wrote. Spidey's credo articulates the basic premise of every superhero universe, including ours. But Lord Acton wrote that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. The tension between those two truths is where the drama comes in. My own heroes are the dreamers, those men and women who tried to make the world a better place than when they found it, whether in small ways or great ones. Some succeeded, some failed, most had mixed results... but it is the effort that's heroic, as I see it. Win or lose, I admire those who fight the good fight.

“I think that for science fiction, fantasy, and even horror to some extent, the differences are skin-deep.”

Interview with Weird Tales (24 May 2007) http://weirdtales.net/wordpress/2007/05/24/george-rr-martin-on-magic-vs-science/
Kontekst: I think that for science fiction, fantasy, and even horror to some extent, the differences are skin-deep. I know there are elements in the field, particularly in science fiction, who feel that the differences are very profound, but I do not agree with that analysis. I think for me it is a matter of the furnishings. An elf or an alien may in some ways fulfill the same function, as a literary trope. It’s almost a matter of flavor. The ice cream can be chocolate or it can be strawberry, but it’s still ice cream. The real difference, to my mind, is between romantic fiction, which all these genres are a part of, and mimetic fiction, or naturalistic fiction.

“I am much more a gardener than an architect.”

Audio Interview http://www.geekson.com/archives/archiveepisodes/2006/episode080406.htm with Geekson http://www.geekson.com in Episode 54, (4 August 2006)
Kontekst: There are many different kinds of writers, I like to use the analogy of architects and gardeners. There are some writers who are architects, and they plan everything, they blueprint everything, and they know before the drive the first nail into the first board what the house is going to look like and where all the closets are going to be, where the plumbing is going to run, and everything is figured out on the blueprints before they actually begin any work whatsoever. And then there are gardeners who dig a little hole and drop a seed in and water it with their blood and see what comes up, and sort of shape it. They sort of know what seed they've planted — whether it's an oak or an elm, or a horror story or a science fiction story, but they don't how big it's going to be, or what shape it's going to take. I am much more a gardener than an architect.

“I suppose I am still a believer in the now unfashionable "heroic" school, which says that history is shaped by individual men and women and the choices that they make, by deeds glorious and terrible.”

infinity plus interview (2001)
Kontekst: Historical processes have never much interested me, but history is full of stories, full of triumph and tragedy and battles won and lost. It is the people who speak to me, the men and women who once lived and loved and dreamed and grieved, just as we do. Though some may have had crowns on their heads or blood on their hands, in the end they were not so different from you and me, and therein lies their fascination. I suppose I am still a believer in the now unfashionable "heroic" school, which says that history is shaped by individual men and women and the choices that they make, by deeds glorious and terrible.

“There are many different kinds of writers, I like to use the analogy of architects and gardeners.”

Audio Interview http://www.geekson.com/archives/archiveepisodes/2006/episode080406.htm with Geekson http://www.geekson.com in Episode 54, (4 August 2006)
Kontekst: There are many different kinds of writers, I like to use the analogy of architects and gardeners. There are some writers who are architects, and they plan everything, they blueprint everything, and they know before the drive the first nail into the first board what the house is going to look like and where all the closets are going to be, where the plumbing is going to run, and everything is figured out on the blueprints before they actually begin any work whatsoever. And then there are gardeners who dig a little hole and drop a seed in and water it with their blood and see what comes up, and sort of shape it. They sort of know what seed they've planted — whether it's an oak or an elm, or a horror story or a science fiction story, but they don't how big it's going to be, or what shape it's going to take. I am much more a gardener than an architect.

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

infinity plus interview (2001)
Kontekst: 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.

“Sure. Some of the reviews have been very flattering, but the series is not finished yet. The end needs to be as strong as the beginning.”

George Raymond Richard Martin A Song of Ice and Fire

Talking about his magnum opus, A Song of Ice and Fire, in an interview with Patrick St-Denis on Pat's Fantasy Hotlist http://fantasyhotlist.blogspot.com/2006/05/finally-much-anticipated-george-r-r.html (1 May 2006)

“Believe me, no one wants to finish this book more than me.”

Progress update on A Dance with Dragons via his website (2008)

“Much as I admire Tolkien, and I do admire Tolkien — he’s been a huge influence on me, and his Lord of the Rings is the mountain that leans over every other fantasy written since and shaped all of modern fantasy — there are things about it, the whole concept of the Dark Lord, and good guys battling bad guys, Good versus Evil, while brilliantly handled in Tolkien, in the hands of many Tolkien successors, it has become kind of a cartoon. We don’t need any more Dark Lords, we don’t need any more, ‘Here are the good guys, they’re in white, there are the bad guys, they’re in black. And also, they’re really ugly, the bad guys. It is certainly a genuine, legitimate topic as the core of fantasy, but I think the battle between Good and Evil is waged within the individual human hearts. We all have good in us and we all have evil in us, and we may do a wonderful good act on Tuesday and a horrible, selfish, bad act on Wednesday, and to me, that’s the great human drama of fiction. I believe in gray characters, as I’ve said before. We all have good and evil in us and there are very few pure paragons and there are very few orcs. A villain is a hero of the other side, as someone said once, and I think there’s a great deal of truth to that, and that’s the interesting thing. In the case of war, that kind of situation, so I think some of that is definitely what I’m aiming at.”

AssignmentX interview (June 2011) http://www.assignmentx.com/2011/interview-game-of-thrones-creator-george-r-r-martin-on-the-future-of-the-franchise-part-2/

“Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.”

"George R. R. Martin Interview GAME OF THRONES" http://collider.com/george-r-r-martin-interview-game-of-thrones/ by Christina Radish, Collider (17 April 2011)

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