https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/t-magazine/george-rr-martin-got-interview.html
"Martin still has two books left to finish; his delay is, unfortunately for him, one of his fans’ favorite topics. But when the final six episodes of “Game of Thrones” air in the spring of 2019, they will conclude the most successful series in HBO’s history. Shows of its scope, cost and ambition are, if not quite commonplace, not unusual anymore"
"One of the complex pleasures of immersing yourself in Westeros is that — because it is fictional, and thus has fictional problems that seem bad but not quite as intractable as reality — you can glean something akin to world order (or the possibility of one) from this imaginary place. Despite the hopelessness of today, in this narrative, there is a clear vector of destiny, the possibility that someone, be it Jon Snow or Daenerys Targaryen or someone else altogether, will turn out to be the savior. That is why we keep reading and watching and asking Martin to give us more: for the promise of an ending that means something."