I am the blood of the dragon. Do not presume to teach me lessons.

Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.

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.

Go Ahead, call me all the names you want," Sansa said airily. "You won't dare when I'm married to Joffrey. You'll have to bow and call me Your Grace." She shrieked as Arya flung the orange across the table. It caught her in the middle of the forehead with a wet squish and plopped down into her lap. "You have juice on your face, Your Grace ," Arya said.

In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.

I've said in many interviews that I like my fiction to be unpredictable. I like there to be considerable suspense.

Perhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a little less bad.