Stephen Colbertis giving George R.R.
Martin some good-natured grief about his epic struggle to finishThe Winds of Winter.
This is 700 pages long, Colbert said ofFire and Blood.
Arent you supposed to be finishingThe Winds of Winterthis entire time?
Not to add to the chorus of what has taken so long, but this is a 700-page detour!
Theres a lot of stuff to write, Martin said.
I should actually get home and get to work.
And Im mad about that myself.
I wished I finished it four years ago.
I wished it was finished now.
The show is going further and further forward and Im falling further and further behind.
What the hell is happening here?
Ive got to do this.
Explained Martin: I lived in Bayou, N.J., in a federal housing project.
We were not allowed to have dogs.
We were not allowed to have cats.
I could fit two turtle bowls in the castle.
But the thing is about those little dime store turtles is they die very soon.
I fed them the turtle food, I thought I was doing everything right.
I couldnt figure out why they would die.
It certainly wasnt my fault.
I decided they were competing for the turtle throne.
They were competing for who would be the turtle king.
That was my first fantasy: Turtle Castle.
It precededGame of Thronesby many years.
