As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen.

Have a care how you speak to me, Imp. Doubtless he meant to sound threatening, but that absurd wisp of a mustache ruined the effect.

Prince Rhaegar loved his Lady Lyanna, and thousands died for it.

I've been very lucky. There were times when I was afraid I would never sell another book, but I never doubted I'd write another book.

The common people pray for rain, healthy children and a summer that never ends. It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace.

There was an agelessness about him, a stillness; on Roose Bolton's face, rage and joy looked much the same.

Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths.