David Benioff quotes

I was half asleep but I smiled. In spite of all his irritating qualities, I couldn't help liking a man who despised a fictional character with such passion. (David Benioff)
You're a writer. Make it up. View quote
David Benioff
Contrary to popular belief, the experience of terror does not make you braver. Perhaps though, it is easier to hide your fear when you're afraid all the time. View quote
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There are a few moments in your life when you are truly and completely happy, and you remember to give thanks. Even as it happens you are nostalgic for the moment, you are tucking it away in your scrapbook. View quote
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This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human. View quote
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Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor. View quote
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Every adaptation requires that the screenwriter make difficult choices - and in particular, difficult cuts. View quote
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the lonliest sound in the world is other people making love. View quote
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You don't like the girl. You don't know what color eyes she has, you don't like her. View quote
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Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying. View quote
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‎I was cursed with the pessimism of both the Russians and the Jews two of the gloomiest tribes in the world. Still if there wasn't greatness in me maybe I had the talent to recognize it in others even in the most irritating others. (David Benioff)
I think, in a weird way, the reason I was drawn to screenwriting and the reason I really love doing it is because I love writing dialogue. View quote
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I like having my own story remain my story. View quote
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I've never flown a kite. View quote
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I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own. View quote
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Perhaps a hero is someone who doesn't register his own vulnerability. Is it courage, then, if you're too daft to know you're mortal? View quote
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I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed. View quote
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The fire was silent, the little houses collapsing into the flames without complaint, flocks of sparks rising to the sky. At a distance it seemed beautiful, and I thought it was strange that powerful violence is often so pleasing to the eye... View quote
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And I didn't grow up wanting to be a director. I grew up wanting to be a writer, so for me, that was always the goal - to be a novelist, not a screenwriter. And I think, again, if I didn't have the novels, maybe I'd be much more frustrated by not having directed yet. View quote
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With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it's more a polite suggestion. View quote
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You just do the best you can and hope people see the potential in it. (David Benioff)
The secret to winning a woman is calculated neglect. View quote
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I was a huge fantasy geek growing up. I was the dungeon master in my D&D game. View quote
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A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter. View quote
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I never understood people who said their greatest fear was public speaking, or spiders, or any of the other minor terrors. How could you fear anything more than death? Everything else offered moments of escape: a paralyzed man could still read Dickens; a man in the grips of dementia might have flashes of the must absurd beauty. View quote
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