I've written some standalone novels, but a book series allows fans in. There's much more intense involvement.

The wide world is full of people wanting help, Jon. Would that some could find the courage to help themselves. - Lord Commander Mormont

Is it treason to say the truth? A bitter truth, but no less true for that.

Much as I admire Tolkien, I once again always felt like Gandalf should have stayed dead. That was such an incredible sequence in Fellowship of the Ring when he faces the Balrog on the Khazad-dûm and he falls into the gulf, and his last words are, "Fly, you fools." What power that had, how that grabbed me. And then he comes back as Gandalf the White, and if anything he's sort of improved. I never liked Gandalf the White as much as Gandalf the Grey, and I never liked him coming back. I think it would have been an even stronger story if Tolkien had left him dead.

I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.

Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence.

Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used against you