Martin is 70, and it’s fair to wonder if at his current pace he will actually ever finish the series that made him famous. At the earliest, it will be several years before the books are done
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George R.R. Martin is lying about working on The Winds of Winter again. Guys He's already said he's a "perfectionist". I'm guessing he means in the real, debilitating sense, not the interview sense. Here's how I imagine it is going: He finished the first draft. He redid major major chunks, which is fairly normal.