George R. R. Martin Quotes

One of the greatest things that Apple and Jobs were very good at doing was daring to do the very different thing. It's what I did with my cookbook, frankly.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

The innovator, however, must in the first place be discontented, he must doubt the value of what he is doing or question the accepted ways of doing it. And secondly, he must be prepared to take fresh paths, to venture into fields where he is by no means expert. This is true, at least, of major forms of innovation; they make it possible for other men to be expert, but are not themselves forms of expertise

Creativity has got to have some edge to it, doesn't it?

If designers are willing to take risks, I think buyers should take risks, as well with press taking risks.

When it comes to storytelling, not taking risks is riskier than swinging for the fences. I have very simple ambitions when it comes to taking risks in storytelling and programming. I try very hard to avoid the expected.

Have fun. Do something nobody else had done before, or has done since.

I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

There's real peril in trying to repeat yourself, and apply rules that applied to something else to a new project.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.

Don't hold back in your writing. Take risks. Go ahead and tackle that crazy idea that you think will never fly, because that may be the one that makes you stand out from the crowd. Keep pushing the envelope.

I believe in being an innovator.

I like companies that try and break away from the norm.

Everybody wants you to do this thing that you've always been doing forever. That's what they want: they want Martin Scorsese to make the same film two hundred times rather than trying to be something different.

Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my words and corrects my punctuation, I can't read what I wrote. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.

I feel every day that everything I create - everything I do - I want it to be a risk.

I just want to keep pushing the envelope without it feeling forced.

I'm not an innovator.

The most successful people in the world are the ones who thought of that idea that was 'too crazy to work.'

Just finding ways to be not provocative for provocative's sake, but to show an idea that hasn't been shown before, I mean that's interesting to me.

If you don't take a risk then what's the point. We can't keep making films in the same space.

The easiest thing is to create something no one has ever seen before. There's a reason no one's ever seen it - because someone tried it, and it didn't work in the real world.

Risk is what separates the artist from the artisan.

Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood.