“I've never been good with deadlines. My early novels, I wrote by mysel...” — George R. R. Martin Quote

“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 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.”

“I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China and Liberia and England and Denmark and whatever, and I learned all the different flags, and I tried to imagine what it would be like to be voyaging on some of these ships.”

“Sometimes we want guys with big names on our teams. Who wouldn't want guys like that? A $300 million contract, a $200 million contract, on your team because he's that good.”

“I'd rather deal with a Mob guy shaking hands on a deal than a Hollywood lawyer, who, the minute you get the contract signed, is trying to figure out how to screw you.”

“When you sign a contract you only think about staying for all of it, but that depends on many things.”