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You know, it was just another presentation of my work, and a funny one, because the cards are quite different from the normal Tarot deck, no?


H. R. Giger

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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 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 If your heart is full, you don't feel that hungry.
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