I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces for fanzines, and I've written for Hollywood.

Some battles are won with swords and spears, others with quills and ravens.

We're all just songs in the end. If we are lucky.

You're mine," she whispered. "Mine, as I'm yours. And if we die, we die. All men must die, Jon Snow. But first, we'll live.

Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.

Sometimes I think everyone is just pretending to be brave, and none of us really are. Maybe pretending is how you get brave, I don't know.

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