It's the most exciting thing to watch God work when I've asked him about something, to listen to him and watch him work. It's like this friendship, and it just grows and grows and grows and grows.


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Nothing bores me more than books where you read two pages and you know exactly how it's going to...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of wri...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
Not all who wander are lost.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wis...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one w...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
Still round the corner there may wait,
A new road or a secret gate.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
Remember what Bilbo used to say: It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step ont...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has go...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
Then the enchantment became more dreamlike, until he felt that an endless river of swelling gold and...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
Whether you're a history buff or a fantasy fan, Druon's epic will keep you turning pages. Th...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does no...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
An awful lot of fantasy, and even some great fantasy, falls into the mistake of assuming that a good...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire&...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one tur...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to ...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
He had a feeling that the answer was quite different and that he ought to know it, but he could no...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
Short cuts make long delays.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
When I am writing best, I really am lost in my world. I lose track of the outside world. I have a di...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
Still round the corner there may wait,
A new road or a secret gate.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things on...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not t...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or j...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
One Ring to rule them all,
One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all
and in the ...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as wel...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more p...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally sma...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
Little by little, one travels far.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wa...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy t...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
There was part of me that wanted to see the world and travel to distant places, but I could only do ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
I have files, I have computer files and, you know, files on paper. But most of it is really in my he...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
In my 10 years that I spent out in TV and film, I had my shares of frustrations and annoyances and d...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a fri...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN