From where I sit, battles are hard. I’ve written my share. Sometimes I employ the private’s viewpoint, very up close and personal, dropping the reader right into the middle of the carnage. That’s vivid and visceral, but of necessity chaotic, and it is easy to lose all sense of the battle as a whole. Sometimes I go with the general’s point of view instead, looking down from on high, seeing lines and flanks and reserves. That gives a great sense of the tactics, of how the battle is won or lost, but can easily slide into abstraction.
George R. R. MartinIf I wanted to honor you, I´d let you retire. I am planing to make you run the kingdom and fight the wars while I eat and drink
George R. R. MartinPeople often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.
George R. R. MartinOnly a fool humbles himself when the world is so full of men eager to do that job for him. (Theon Greyjoy)
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