Author: David Benioff

Quotes

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

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

- 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.

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

It is actually a lot harder to sit down and write from A to Z. But for me at least, it's the only way I can do it, at this point, with any moderate success.

It is actually a lot harder to sit down and write from A to Z. But for me at least, it's the only way I can do it, at this point, with any moderate success.

- David Benioff

Despite his dodgy politics, Yeats remains an inspiration for his genius and the simple fact that the older he got, the better he wrote.

Despite his dodgy politics, Yeats remains an inspiration for his genius and the simple fact that the older he got, the better he wrote.

- David Benioff

But in a 24-hour day, the 25th hour is also the impossible hour, an hour that doesn't exist, that can only be created by the imagination.

But in a 24-hour day, the 25th hour is also the impossible hour, an hour that doesn't exist, that can only be created by the imagination.

- David Benioff

Movies that are subtitled don't usually do as well in American theatres.

Movies that are subtitled don't usually do as well in American theatres.

- 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.

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 love reading novels, and I love going to movies, but I kind of hate going to an adaptation of a novel, and it starts off with a voiceover.

I love reading novels, and I love going to movies, but I kind of hate going to an adaptation of a novel, and it starts off with a voiceover.

- David Benioff

I'm just not a natural teacher.

I'm just not a natural teacher.

- David Benioff

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