"Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories."
— George R.R. Martin
Nobody Is A Villain In Their
Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.
About this quote
Martin said this in an interview with Collider, published on April 17, 2011, in conversation with journalist Christina Radish. He was discussing his writing method of inhabiting each character's perspective in tight third-person narration, which requires him to find the internal logic of even the most reprehensible characters. The observation reflects a core principle of his fiction: moral complexity over simple heroism and villainy.
Source
Interview with Collider, 2011