David Benioff Quotes

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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.

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  Sleep, Insomnia, Skulls

  David Benioff (2008). “City of Thieves: A Novel”, p.25, Penguin

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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.

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  Giving, Thanks, Nostalgia

  David Benioff (2005). “When the Nines Roll Over: And Other Stories”, p.73, Penguin

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

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  Good Life, Fighting, Barbarians

  David Benioff (2008). “City of Thieves: A Novel”, p.32, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Doe, Belief, Easier

  David Benioff (2008). “City of Thieves: A Novel”, p.21, Penguin

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• I'll tell you a secret. Something they don't teach you in your temple. The Gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

  David Benioff

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  "Troy". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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

  David Benioff

  Editors, Needs, Fiction

  David Benioff (2005). “When the Nines Roll Over: And Other Stories”, p.90, Penguin

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• You're a writer. Make it up.

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  David Benioff (2008). “City of Thieves: A Novel”, p.11, Penguin

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• Talent must be a fanatical mistress. She's beautiful; when you're with her, people watch you, they notice. But she bangs on your door at odd hours, and she disappears for long stretches, and she has no patience for the rest of your existence; your wife, your children, your friends. She is the most thrilling evening of your week, but some day she will leave you for good. One night, after she's been gone for years, you will see her on the arm of a younger man, and she will pretend not to recognize you.

  David Benioff

  Beautiful, Children, Night

  David Benioff (2008). “City of Thieves: A Novel”, p.124, Penguin

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• She leaned forward and kissed me on the lips. He mouth was cold, her lips rough from the winter wind, and if the mystics are right and we are doomed to repeat our squalid lives ad infinitum, at least I will always return to that kiss

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  Kissing, Winter, Wind

  David Benioff (2008). “City of Thieves: A Novel”, p.179, Penguin

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

  David Benioff

  Hero, Realising, Dies

  Interview with Ed Cumming, www.telegraph.co.uk. April 10, 2012.

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

  David Benioff

  Girl, Eye, Color

  David Benioff (2008). “City of Thieves: A Novel”, p.40, Penguin

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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.

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  Greatness, Two, World

  David Benioff (2008). “City of Thieves: A Novel”, p.78, Penguin

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• The eternal challenge for screenwriter adapters is figuring out how to make something work on screen, when so much of what made it work in the book were the thoughts of the character, and obviously wanting to avoid voiceover.

  David Benioff

  Book, Character, Challenges

  "The Surprising Connection Between Game of Thrones and Monty Python". Interview with Jim Windolf, www.vanityfair.com. March 24, 2014.

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

  David Benioff

  People, Making Love, Sound

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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.

  David Benioff

  Notes, Wells, Pianist

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• This wasn't the way I had imagined my adventures, but reality ignored my wishes from the get-go, giving me a body best suited for stacking books in the library, injecting so much fear into my veins that I could only cower in the stairwell when the violence came. Maybe someday my arms and legs would thicken with muscle and the fear would drain away like dirty bathwater. I wish I believed these things would happen, but I didn't.

  David Benioff

  Dirty, Book, Adventure

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

  David Benioff

  Cutting, Difficult Choices, Adaptation

  "Web Access... David Benioff". www.bbc.co.uk.

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• 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

  Writing, Thinking, Way

  Interview with Jason Bateman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2008.

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• The secret to winning a woman is calculated neglect.

  David Benioff

  Winning, Secret, Neglect

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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.

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  Men, Greatest Fear, People

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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?

  David Benioff

  Hero, Register, Ifs

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• I like having my own story remain my story.

  David Benioff

  Stories, My Own

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• I've never flown a kite.

  David Benioff

  Kites

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• I have never been much of a patriot. My father would not have allowed such a thing while he lived, and his death insured that his wish was carried out. Piter commanded far more affection and loyalty from me than the nation as a whole. But that night, running across the unplowed fields of winter wheat, with the Fascist invaders behind us and the dark Russian woods before us, I felt a surge of pure love for my country. We ran for the forest, crashing through the stalks of wheat, beneath the rising moon and the stars spinning farther and farther away, alone beneath the godless sky.

  David Benioff

  Loyalty, Country, Running

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

  David Benioff

  Growing Up, Games, Dungeons

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