George R. R. Martin Quotes

I'm not the fastest writer. I can't just crank out ideas that are good enough.

It just happens I write fast and always have done.

I don't know if I am a good, average, or bad writer, but I write fast. Everything I observe, my experiences and imagination come together while writing.

It takes me ages to write stuff.

I'm a very slow writer.

As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough - I wrote faster than I would write a letter - two thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot help it.

Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty.

Well, I'm a slow writer. For me, a good day is a page, maybe a page and a half. I'd love to be more efficient, but I am not.

I don't actually have to think very hard when I'm writing. I mean, there are times where it's a task, and you have to plug away and plug away. But then there are times when a song writes itself in 15 minutes, and you're just struggling to keep up with it.

I'm a very slow screenwriter. It takes time for me to write a screenplay. Also, I feel it's not my strength.

It takes me, like, half an hour to write the lyrics for a song. They just come out.

I kind of like to write fast. It keeps the pacing up. And it keeps me off the streets.

Writers who sit down and write might judge what they're putting down, but I always just try to barf it out. I'm writing crap, but I'll put it down.

And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War.

Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.

Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.

I don't write quickly, and I don't want to.

I'm not the slowest writer that you know.

For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you're writing, and for that you need silence.

It's easy to write a good column if you've got good information. It's hard if you have to depend on style alone. I suppose there are people who can get away with styling on a regular basis. I'm not one of them. You're probably not, either.

I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books.

I don't fiddle or edit or change while I'm going through that first draft.

I've always been a very prolific writer.

As a writer, I can't really take days off. Writing is like creating an art. Once you stop writing, you can lose your rhythm and context, meaning that your writing may lose its power.

Write for yourself, not for a perceived audience. If you do, you'll mostly fall flat on your face, because it's impossible to judge what people want. And you have to read. That's how you learn what is good writing and what is bad. Then the main thing is application. It's hard work.