I heard of a man who had a razor made of Valyrian steel. He cut his head off trying to shave.

In the songs all knights are gallant, all maids are beautiful, and the sun is always shining.

He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world.

I feel satisfaction at the end of the day when I've written a scene that I really like or when I write a good line of dialogue that I read out to my wife or something like that. But there's also days where it's just bloody agony and I go, 'ugh, this is such crap! Why did I think I had any talent?

The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.

Remember, whatever the price...I'll beat it! I like living! Tyrion Lannister

The most important thing for any aspiring writer, is to read! And not just the sort of thing you're trying to write, be that fantasy, SF, comic books, whatever. You need to read everything.