George R.R. Martin, author of phenom-book series A Song of Ice and Fire, which spawned the hit TV show Game of Thrones, was interviewed recently for a spot on The Today Show.
In his interview, Mr. Martin (because we hold him in such high regard that we just can’t call him George!) asked fans to be patient while he writes the next book in the series, saying that “if I knocked them out at a book a year, it wouldn’t be this series – it would be something else, something I’m not interested in writing.”
He also said that when he started writing the series, he went big with the descriptions of the fantasy world of Westeros, thinking that “this would never be filmed, there would never be a budget.” Little did he know that over 20 years after beginning the first book (which was finally published in 1996), HBO would pick up the rights to the books, and turn it into one of the biggest pop-culture phenomenons in decades.
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