George R. R. Martin
Related Building on the work of George Macdonald, William Morris and Edward Plunkett, what became known as h... ADRIAN MCKINTY RALPH BAKSHI I don't read books. I read 'On the Road' in high school, and that was awesome, so I gues... MEGHAN TRAINOR JOHN HOWE I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - ... KARRINE STEFFANS CAITLYN JENNER HOWARD SHORE I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that... CHAD SMITH When I was in high school, I read all of Neil Simon's plays. DARIUS RUCKER GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I would love to live in 'The Lord of the Rings.' J. R. R. Tolkien's world is so vivid an... MARY POPE OSBORNE ADAM MCKAY I didn't read much SF as a kid - I was a total Tolkien geek - but I started reading Samuel Delan... ELIZABETH HAND STEVEN WRIGHT I'm a huge Emile Zola fan, and when Bill Gallagher said he was writing a new character for '... BEN DANIELS The first time I ever did a play, in junior high school, I said to myself, 'Hey, people like me ... STEPHEN FURST JAMES PATTERSON The first play I ever saw - I was in junior high school - was a high school production of Noel Cowar... TERRY TEACHOUT JUNOT DIAZ 'Don Quijote' by Cervantes. I read the original Spanish version when I was in high school. S... MANIKA MATT DE LA PENA GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I had learning problems when I was in elementary school, and didn't really start to read well un... LAUREN TARSHIS I was a huge fan of 'Game Of Thrones.' I hadn't read the books but had watched the serie... NATHALIE EMMANUEL In junior high school, I learned that I could be good at school. I remember liking the freedom to ch... CAROL W. GREIDER THE WEEKND Our daughter's name Arwynn comes from Arwen in 'Lord of the Rings' because my wife and I... ADRIAN MCKINTY When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scie... SAM TRAMMELL When I was in school, I was very involved with a lot of things. I was very very active. I couldn'... FAITH FORD AJA NAOMI KING A. S. BYATT LUPE FIASCO GEORGE R.R. MARTIN GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I had a band called the Sound Of Love, and that was R&B songs about girls in my high school. I p... MAC DEMARCO PAUL THEROUX ISAAC HAYES JONAH HILL ELIOT SCHREFER I was an amateur wrestler, which I loved. It was my passion, but I started really late; I was a juni... DAVE BAUTISTA ZAC EFRON I knew that I could sing when I was young. I would listen to a lot of jazz; I'm a big jazz fan. ... ANDRA DAY VICTORIA AVEYARD DAVID LACHAPELLE MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM JOHN WOODEN SPENCER BOLDMAN NORTON JUSTER I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she... MAE WHITMAN GRETCHEN RUBIN GEORGE R.R. MARTIN GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school. OSCAR ROBERTSON It wasn't a secret that I was gay. I'd come out to my parents during my junior year of high ... MARY CHENEY LORNA LUFT I'm from Ohio, and I wasn't one of those kids who grew up making movies or whatever, but I a... DAVID LESLIE JOHNSON JOHN KRASINSKI The books I used to love as a kid, I used to read football books - and by that I mean soccer books -... BEN LLOYD-HUGHES I don't like slugs and tentacles and calamari or anything. Actually, tentacles made me turn into... SELMA BLAIR MILES TELLER SEAN BEAN I was, throughout school, in the theater program. Through elementary school, junior high, high schoo... GREG GRUNBERG It's pathetic, but I don't really remember my first time reading 'The Great Gatsby.'... SUSAN CHOI SUE TOWNSEND DOROTHY ALLISON I was always a really big fan of R. L. Stine and the 'Goosebumps' T.V. series and the 'G... DYLAN MINNETTE I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I follow the sport. I played in high school, a little bit in coll... 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