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George R.R. Martin calls finishing the ‘THE WINDS OF WINTER’ the “curse of his life,” in new interview with @TIME magazine: “There’s no doubt that Winds of Winter is 13 years late. I’m still working on it. I have periods where I make progress, and then other things divert my attention, and suddenly I have a deadline for one of the HBO shows, I have something else to do. But the two things are not connected. I open a bookstore, and people say, “Why is George R.R. Martin opening a bookstore? He could be writing Winds of Winter.” I don’t actually work in the bookstore. I own it. I hired people to do it. If you go into the bookstore, yes, a lot of my books are there, which I’ve signed, and a lot of books by other people. I’m not going to ring up your register. I have a theatre. I’m not the projectionist. They seem to overestimate how much time I’m putting into these things. I own stocks and bonds too. I don’t attend the shareholders meetings. I’m not on the board of directors. I’ve invested in something, and sometimes the stock goes up and I make money, and sometimes it’s like now, and suddenly I lose a lot of money. But it’s not me running it. You’ve heard exactly what role I played in the Dire Wolf thing. I’m sitting at home, I might’ve been working on Winds of Winter, and suddenly, Peter Jackson is on the line. […] It did not seriously impinge on the writing of Winds of Winter. But people make it seem, my more fanatic fans, as if it’s one or the other, and it’s not.”