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I've never flown a kite.
— David Benioff
The secret to winning a woman is calculated neglect.
— 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.
— David Benioff
So many die without our caring, decline to silence in rooms beyond hearing. We honor the dead and abhor the dying.
- from the story De Composition — David Benioff
- from the story De Composition — David Benioff
I am aware that I am aware
— David Benioff
With screenplays, it's all about being as concise as possible. If you have a scene that's set in a bar, you just have to write, 'Interior: Bar.'
— 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.
— David Benioff
If this is a dream the whole world is inside it.
— David Benioff
Don't worry, my friend. I won't let you die.
I was seventeen and stupid and I believed him. — David Benioff
I was seventeen and stupid and I believed him. — 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
Sometimes I get jealous when I'm reading a great book by a younger writer. But 'White Tiger' is so good, I almost forgot to hate Aravind Adiga.
— David Benioff
I like having my own story remain my story.
— David Benioff
Fiction novels, that's my game.
— David Benioff
You're a writer. Make it up.
— David Benioff
This life came so close to never happening..
— David Benioff
It smelled like jail ... sore knees and loose assholes.
— David Benioff
The days had become a confusion of catastrophes; what seemed impossible in the afternoon was blunt fact by the evening.
— David Benioff
You don't like the girl. You don't know what color eyes she has, you don't like her.
— David Benioff
They have decided nothing can kill them but God himself, and they don't even believe in him.
David Benioff; City of Thieves — David Benioff
David Benioff; City of Thieves — David Benioff
He gave me a small, secretive smile, a smile that said he knew many things but couldn't share them all at once.
— 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.
— David Benioff
This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.
— 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
Fear is part of our inheritance.
Lev from City of Thieves — David Benioff
Lev from City of Thieves — David Benioff
I knew David Benioff a bit socially. I knew his wife, Amanda Peet. He's a smart guy, so I always sought him out at dinner parties.
— Peter Dinklage
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
Hollywood screenwriters tend to have the longevity of NFL running backs. So the truth is no one can put more pressure on us than we put on ourselves.
— 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
She was not a writer herself but she was a very good reader, passionate and eclectic in her tastes, and my father had great faith in her judgments.
— 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
I don't type my sentences on an arena's pitch, surrounded by thousands of cheering or booing fans - I don't feel pressure to please a crowd.
— David Benioff
Every adaptation requires that the screenwriter make difficult choices - and in particular, difficult cuts.
— David Benioff
I'm just not a natural teacher.
— David Benioff
You couldn't let too much truth seep into your conversation, you couldn't admit with your mouth what your eyes had seen.
— David Benioff
There's never been a fantasy movie of the epic battle of good versus evil that ended with evil winning.
— David Benioff
To shoot a decent fight, you need to cover all the different angles, and it ends up eating a lot of days.
— David Benioff
The lonliest sound in the world is other people making love.
— David Benioff