- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Exposing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that a writer learns from every story he writes, and when you try different things, you learn different lessons. Working with other writers, as in Hollywood or in a shared world series, will also strengthen your skills, by exposing you to new ways of seeing the work, and different approaches to certain creative challenges.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work for two years on a book and it comes out and two days later I've got my first e-mail: When is the next one coming out?
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the special effects guy and the lighting technician: I'm all of that. So if it's good or bad, it's all up to me.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know if I have any particular views about women in positions of power, though I do think it's more difficult for women, particularly in a Medieval setting. They have the additional problem that they're a woman and people don't want them in a position of power in an essentially patriarchal society.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
An awful lot of fantasy, and even some great fantasy, falls into the mistake of assuming that a good man will be a good king, that all that is necessary is to be a decent human being and when you're king everything will go swimmingly.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have idea files of books that I want to write one of these days, stories I want to write one of these days, but I'll probably never get to them.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's like these ideas, these characters, kind of bubble up inside me, and one day they're not there, and the next day they are there. They're alive, and they're whispering in my head and all that stuff, and I want to write about those things.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There has to be a level of joy of what you're doing.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can see a scene in my head, and when I try to get it down in words on paper, the words are clunky; the scene is not coming across right. So frustrating. And there are days where it keeps flowing. Open the floodgates, and there it is. Pages and pages coming. Where the hell does this all come from? I don't know.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of writing, one of which was, 'You must finish what you write.' I never had any problem with the first one, 'You must write' - I was writing since I was a kid. But I never finished what writing.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Boy, there are days where I get up and say 'Where the hell did my talent go? Look at this crap that I'm producing here. This is terrible. Look, I wrote this yesterday. I hate this, I hate this.'
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is hard. I mean, I sit there and work at it.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've said in many interviews that I like my fiction to be unpredictable. I like there to be considerable suspense.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is magic in my universe, but it's pretty low magic compared to other fantasies.
- Destroy
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can have the power to destroy, but it doesn't give you the power to reform, or improve, or build.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a novelist first. But in the mid-'80s, I did work in television for ten years. And yes, that was frequently the reaction to my scripts. People would say, 'You know, George, this is great. We love it, a terrific script, but it would cost five times our budget to shoot this.'
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have done a lot of work in Hollywood myself. I worked in television for roughly 10 years, from the mid-'80s to mid-'90s. And I was on staff at a couple of shows. I did some feature films, including originals and adaptations.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always been a dark writer.
- Outlines
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't write outlines; I hate outlines.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm writing from a character's viewpoint, in essence I become that character; I share their thoughts, I see the world through their eyes and try to feel everything they feel.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are writers, and I know some of them, who are very disciplined. Who write, like, four pages a day, every day. And it doesn't matter if their dog got run over by a car that day, or they won the Irish sweepstakes. I'm not one of those writers.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my 10 years that I spent out in TV and film, I had my shares of frustrations and annoyances and disappointments, but also I think it was, in the long run, it was very good for me in a whole bunch of ways.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020