Ross Douthat Quotes

I was a huge fan of 'Game Of Thrones.' I hadn't read the books but had watched the series from the beginning.

'Game of Thrones' is the broadest of narratives. I don't know if anyone in the U.S. has done a story on such a large scale before, both in terms of what George R.R. Martin wrote and what's on the show.

Everyone in the '80s was reading Tolkien; he invented this whole medieval fantasy genre.

Jen Lawrence is quite a fan of 'Game of Thrones.'

My girlfriend has read all the 'Game of Thrones' books - twice.

I spent a whole summer working on what proved to be 'A Game of Thrones'.

I grew up reading a lot of fantasy/sci-fi. It was really all I read - anything from 'Dragonlance,' when I was 12, to 'The Wheel of Time' and Robert Jordan stuff, to George R.R. Martin, who did 'Game of Thrones.'

I'm hooked on 'Game of Thrones.' I'm a fan of the books and the show.

I love 'Game of Thrones.'

Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire', as historical fiction about history that never happened, flavoured with a dash of sorcery and spiced with dragons. I take that as a compliment.

I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.

I loved 'Game Of Thrones.'

I love George R.R. Martin's 'Game of Thrones' series.

I really like 'Game of Thrones.

I actually really love 'Game of Thrones,' and I don't see a conflict in that.

When I was a teenager, what I most wanted to read were fantasy novels. Not Tolkien and Malory, but sword-and-sorcery pulp. I craved glowy blue magic, chainmail bikinis, dragons with unpronounceable names.

I haven't read more than two pages, but my mother is a George Martin super fan.

I don't really watch a load of 'Game Of Thrones.'

I hadn't watched 'Lord of the Rings' - I'm gonna get so much flack for this, but I hadn't watched 'Lord of the Rings' when I started watching 'Game of Thrones.'

I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.

'Game of Thrones' is an amazing show, and I have no problem speaking of the virtues of HBO.

The fantasy world, the 'Game of Thrones' world, the forgotten realms worlds - they're the type of worlds I've always wanted to live in. Where vampires, dragons, dwarves and elves are real.

I'm a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, and they had a profound effect on me. I'd read other fantasy before, but none of them that I loved like Tolkien.

I've read everything that Isaac Asimov ever wrote, for a start. I'm massively into my fantasy genre, anything by R.A. Salvatore or David Gemmell. I've read every single book those writers have written.

Many fantasy novels - 'Lord of the Rings', for instance, or 'Lavondyss' by Robert Holdstock - are beautifully written. Geoff Ryman's 'The Child Garden' is exquisite and utterly beguiling. Mervyn Peake's 'Gormenghast' trilogy is an astonishing piece of multi-faceted storytelling. So quality of writing does not condemn the genre.