George R. R. Martin Quotes

Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.

Uprootedness uproots everything except the need for roots.

I'd always somehow felt slightly as if I'd been born in the wrong country.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

I belong nowhere and to no one.

Homeland is something one becomes aware of only through its loss.

I didn't know what country I represented anymore.

I never felt truly at home in Switzerland.

I liked the idea of being from 'somewhere else.' I do think that's inherited. My father never had a fixed sense of where home was, and for my sister and me, it is much easier not to belong than to belong.

I don't feel that I belong anywhere. Or rather, if there's a place I belong, I don't feel I'm there.

Every time someone asks me where I'm from, I'm not sure how to answer that question... so I say I have no roots.

On the flight over to the Gulf of Mexico, I wondered about how they say you can never go home again, but maybe an equally expensive reality is how many people, regardless of how many years or miles they put between themselves and where they were born, are never truly able to leave home.

I didn't have just one place where I could say, 'That's my home.'

When you've moved 13 times, you lose track of where you're from.

We're alike, Jess would tell himself, me and Miss Edmunds . . . We don't belong at Lark Creek, Julia and me.

When I was younger I felt lonely... In terms of my thought processes. I had the constant feeling that I thought differently to everyone around me. So, I suppose I felt lonely for a home. I didn't know where I wanted to be, but I knew I wasn't there yet.

The moment you’ve uttered the exact dimensionality of your exile, you’re already turning towards home.

All exiles carry a map within them that points the way homeward.

It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland at the moment we are about to lose it.

When I was teaching, I didn't feel I had a home, a place where I truly belonged.

When you come back to a country that you've left, you're in a very peculiar situation because, in a way, you don't belong to that country any more, even though when I'm in America I feel I don't belong there either.

What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.

It was difficult when I was very young because I was so separated from my family. When I was at school or acting in a play, I felt very much part of something, and then it would always change, and I would be by myself.

She is Cuba. If you want to love her, you have to be with her, but you can't be with her in her current state. It's the point of view of all exiles - you have to leave the thing you cherish most.

I'm interested in people who find themselves in places, either of their choosing or not, and who are forced to decide how best to live there. That feeling of both citizenship and exile, of always being an expatriate - with all the attendant problems and complications and delight.