George R. R. Martin Quotes

I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.

My portal to another world was fiction.

It's not magic that takes us to another world - it's storytelling.

I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I always read books, and I could go to Mars or Middle Earth or the Hyborian age.

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.

When I was a teenager I was a total romantic escapist. My world was books.

Books are time machines, transporting us out of our own lives into other times and other places.

I've always loved sci-fi and fantasy.

We range widely, we readers of fiction, but I think we all need a home. Mine is science fiction. It's my home shelf, my homeland, my home planet, my essential genre.

I was never bored because I always had a book. So I had a doorway into another world or another universe. It was great.

It's like reading a book about a life that you will never occupy, but that's the beauty of being transported.

The best readers come to fiction to be free of ... all that isn't fiction.

That's part of fiction, creating a world better than the one you live in.

At first, all is black and white. Black on white. That's where I'm walking, through pages. These pages. Sometimes it gets so that I have one foot in the pages and the words, and the other in what they speak of.

Books are packaged dreams.

I’d much rather pretend I’m somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens.

I was born in Bayonne, New Jersey. I grew up in the projects. I never went anywhere. But I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.

There has always been, for me, this other world, this second world to fall back on--a more reliable world in so far as it does not hide that its premise is illusion.

Dreams, books, are each a world.

A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.

Part of the beauty of fiction is that we come alive in a body that we don't own.

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.

For me, reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.

My interest in fantasy began pretty much when I started to read.

And I guess I'm a kid at heart in that when I go for entertainment, I want to be totally transported. I want to go somewhere else; I want to encounter different things, different beings, different universes. And so I love that aspect of being able to play those things in both 'True Blood' and in 'American Horror Story.'