We will fight a battle, and then we will rest. Alive or dead, we'll rest." - Jon Snow

I think my very earliest stories were all intellectual exercises and I was writing from experiences I had never had about characters who were about an inch deep.

Of course you know him. Everyone knows a pear-shaped man.

He never wanted love, though. You cannot eat love, nor buy a horse with it, nor warm your halls on a cold night.

The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves.

I worked out of Hollywood for 10 years and I had my heart broken half a dozen times, so I know all the things that can go wrong.

What could he have done, one man against so many?" He could have tried, Brienne thought.