The “Winds of Winter” release date delay is said to be
caused by “Game of Thrones,” according to author George R.R. Martin.

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 <a href="http://www.indiewire.com/article/george-rr-martin-talks-comic-books-taxes-and-hating-game-of-thrones-interviews-20141021" target="" rel="" title="Link: http://www.indiewire.com/article/george-rr-martin-talks-comic-books-taxes-and-hating-game-of-thrones-interviews-20141021">Indie
Wire</a> reported that the “Song of Ice and Fire” series creator talked to
filmmaker Pen Densham at the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival about the
“Winds of Winter” release date and “Game of Thrones.”

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 Directors of the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival
celebrated Martin’s contributions by giving him the 2014 Lifetime Achievement
Award as well as a Master Conversation panel. The highly-acclaimed author
revealed how taxing it was to be interviewed a lot.

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 “I've done so many interviews recently and I think I’m going
to cut down on that,” he said.

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 “I just did a film festival in Switzerland and France, and I
was in a room for two days having different journalists come in every 30
minutes to ask the same questions over and over and over again. I was drained
halfway through it. It's creatively stifling."

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 The “Song of Ice and Fire” author also revealed how comic
books helped him become who he is today. “I'm so grateful for comic books
because they were really the thing that made me a reader, which in return made
me a writer,” Martin revealed.

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 “It's a great way to have adventures you can't have in real
life. You can live a broader life. Comic books really kept me going."

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 According to <a href="http://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/630226/Game-of-Thrones-George-RR-Martin-The-Winds-of-Winter-delay-HBO-series" target="" rel="" title="Link: http://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/630226/Game-of-Thrones-George-RR-Martin-The-Winds-of-Winter-delay-HBO-series">Express</a>,
George R.R. Martin attributed the “Winds of Winter” release date delay to the
popularity of “Game of Thrones.” “Writer's block isn't to blame here, it's
distraction,” he admitted.

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 “In recent years, all of the work I've been doing creates
problems because it creates distraction. Because the books and the show are so
popular, I have interviews to do constantly. I have travel plans, constantly.”

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 He also revealed that he doesn’t write when he travels which,
in turn, makes it all the more difficult for him to finish “Winds of Winter.” “I
really have to be in my own house undisturbed to write,” he added.&nbsp;

George R.R. Martin’s ‘Winds Of Winter’ Release Date Delay Caused By ‘Game Of Thrones’ Popularity?

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