A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one. George R.R. Martin

The author of A Game of Thrones was born on this day in 1948.

From Wikipedia: George Raymond Richard Martin (born September 20, 1948), sometimes referred to as GRRM, is anAmerican screenwriter and author of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He is best known for A Song of Ice and Fire, his bestselling series of epic fantasy novels that HBO adapted for their dramatic pay-cable series Game of Thrones. Martin was selected by Time magazine as one of the "2011 Time 100", a list of the "most influential people in the world".