One of the hardest parts of writing is writing from the gut or the heart or something like that rather than intellectually.

I believe that a writer learns from every story he writes, and when you try different things, you learn different lessons. Working with other writers, as in Hollywood or in a shared world series, will also strengthen your skills, by exposing you to new ways of seeing the work, and different approaches to certain creative challenges.

I will teach them what it means to put a lion in a cage, Cersei thought.

I grew up with four T.V. channels. If you missed a show, you missed it. You gotta wait a week for the next one. I'd mail-order books: take a quarter, get an envelope, send off for it and wait until it arrived. I grew up waiting for things.

It seemed cruel for a day to dawn so fair and end so foul as this one promised to.

The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.

Know the men who follow you and let them know you. Don't ask your men to die for a stranger.