The brotherhood of man is evoked by particular men according to their circumstances. But it seldom extends to all men. In the name of our freedom and our brotherhood we are prepared to blow up the other half of mankind and to be blown up in our turn.


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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
I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villa...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
It's really irritating when you open a book, and 10 pages into it you know that the hero you met...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
I do get invitations all of the time to play actual fantasy football, by the way, but I get the feel...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
I'm a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could wri...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, an...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separate...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for ...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giant...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start wit...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
Many writers will get a contract by selling chapters and outlines or something like that. I wrote th...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
Don't write outlines; I hate outlines.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
When I'm writing from a character's viewpoint, in essence I become that character; I share t...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and T...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
It's like these ideas, these characters, kind of bubble up inside me, and one day they're no...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
I never liked Gandalf the White as much as Gandalf the Grey, and I never liked him coming back. I th...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
If you go all the way back, I've always written science-fiction, I've always written fantasy...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scar...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
It is very easy to say I MISS YOU, but very difficult to express how much I MISS YOU………..
SARVESH MURTHI .D .D
I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are...
R. KELLY
I have Marvin Gaye's driver's license. His wife sent it to me, because she really loved my &...
R. KELLY
I started to wear the sunglasses all the time at school, hiding behind them... I'd walk down the...
R. KELLY
I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But...
R. KELLY
When you hear romantic music, it makes you want to take your girl out to dinner or buy her something...
R. KELLY
Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.
R. KELLY
If I'm going to be a leader then I have to go places that other people are afraid to go to. That...
R. KELLY
You know, I'm no different from a fireman. You got to run into a fire no matter how big the blaz...
R. KELLY
I still feel like I'm alone at times - even if I'm in the midst of a million people. Because...
R. KELLY
In life, you have people that love to party. That's me. People that love God. That's me. Peo...
R. KELLY
I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people,...
R. KELLY
I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either.
R. KELLY
I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to me...
R. KELLY
Love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forever more it will go on undefeated....
R. KELLY