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.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.

Every once in a very long while, Lord Tywin Lannister would actually threaten to smile; he never did, but the threat alone was terrible to behold.

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

If I wanted to honor you, I´d let you retire. I am planing to make you run the kingdom and fight the wars while I eat and drink

I suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic.

Sacrifice is never easy or it is no true sacrifice. - Stannis