Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you

One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable.

Not all books are for all people. We read for different reasons.

I beg you both, take heart.'(Varys) 'Whose?' asked Tyrion sourly. He could think of several tempting choices.

She yearned to see her mother again, and Robb and Bran and Rickon… but it was Jon Snow she thought of most. She wished somehow they could come to the Wall before Winterfell, so Jon might muss up her hair and call her “little sister.” She’d tell him, “I missed you,” and he’d say it too at the very same moment, the way they always used to say things together. She would have liked that. She would have liked that better than anything.

There are two kinds of writers. There are architects and gardeners. The architects do blueprints before they drive the first nail. The gardeners just dig a hole and plant the seed and see what comes up.

The Lord of Winterfell would always be a Stark