David Benioff quotes

David Benioff is an American novelist, screenwriter, and producer, acclaimed for his versatile storytelling. Best known as the co-creator of the hit television series "Game of Thrones," he has also authored several notable books including "The 25th Hour." He continues to be a prominent figure in literature and entertainment. Here are 33 of his quotes:

You're a writer. Make it up.

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.

David Benioff

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.

David Benioff

This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.

David Benioff

Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.

David Benioff

Every adaptation requires that the screenwriter make difficult choices - and in particular, difficult cuts.

David Benioff

the lonliest sound in the world is other people making love.

David Benioff

You don't like the girl. You don't know what color eyes she has, you don't like her.

David Benioff

Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying.

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.

David Benioff

I like having my own story remain my story.

David Benioff

I've never flown a kite.

David Benioff

I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own.

David Benioff

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?

David Benioff

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.

David Benioff

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...

David Benioff

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.

David Benioff

With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it's more a polite suggestion.

David Benioff

The secret to winning a woman is calculated neglect.

David Benioff

I was a huge fantasy geek growing up. I was the dungeon master in my D&D game.

David Benioff

A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter.

David Benioff

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.

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