George R.R. Martin
Born: September 20, 1948 in Bayonne, New Jersey, USA
[on writing ‘The Red Wedding’ in A Storm of Swords] That was the hardest scene I’ve ever had to write. It’s two-thirds of the way through the book, but I skipped over it when I came to it. So the entire book was done and there was still that one chapter left. Then I wrote it. It was like murdering two of your children. I try to make the readers feel they’ve lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care. If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it’s a superficial experience isn’t it?
The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems like real life…
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