George R.R. Martin Says ‘***** You’ to People Who Say He Won’t Finish the Books
By Jesse David Fox
You know all the pressure you feel when you have to text a person back? Like, you know they are just looking at their phone, waiting for your text? Now imagine that text had to be 300,000 words long, and that person you're texting was actually a million people. That is George R.R. Martin's life, with people constantly complaining about how long he's taking to finish the A Song of Ice and Fire series. So when the Swiss newspaper Tagesanzeiger asked him about exactly that, he said that he found the question "pretty offensive." Adding, "**** you," and the gesture below.
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