George RR Martin Wishes He'd Finished 'Game of Thrones' Books Before Show Passed Them

Watching your masterpiece come to an end must be a hard and confusing thing to process. Such a huge part of your life is done and over, so what do you do next? Well, in George R. R. Martin's case, he's to write more books.

Instead of the Song of Ice and Fire series coming to an end in one of his books, it will conclude on the hit HBO show Game of Thrones, and the creator of Westeros doesn't know how to feel about that, admitting he has "mixed feelings."

"It’s been an incredible ride," the author tells Entertainment Weekly. "And almost all of it has been great. Obviously, I wished I finished these books sooner so the show hadn’t gotten ahead of me. I never anticipated that."

The reason the television show has gone ahead of him is because it has taken the last eight years for Martin to work on the sixth book, The Winds of Winter, and it still doesn't even have a release date in sight. On top of that, there is also supposed to be a seventh book called A Dream of Spring to follow.

Apparently, Martin has told Game of Thrones showrunners Dan Weiss and David Benioff how he thinks he wants his series to end, but no one can know for sure yet how far the show will differ from the book in the end.

“[The concern] used to be that the books would spoil the show for people — and luckily it did not for the most part,” Benioff said. “Now that the show is ahead of the books, it seems the show could ruin the books for people. So one thing we’ve talked to George about is that we’re not going to tell people what the differences are, so when those books come out people can experience them fresh.”

So while the show comes to an end, it will definitely not be the end for Martin or fans of the book who will get another two books...eventually.

“It’s the end for a lot of people,” Martin said. “It’s not the end for me. I’m still deeply in it. I better live a long time because I have a lot of work left to do.”

Get to working, Martin!