I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.

But what a man can do and what a man will do are two different things, he knew.

We're all the heroes of our own stories. So, when I am inside the head of a character who would otherwise be considered a villain, I have a great deal of affection for that character and I'm trying to see the world and the events through their eyes.

Power resides where men believe it to reside.

I want to make my kingdom beautiful, to fill it with fat men and pretty maids and laughing children. I want my people to smile when they see me ride by, the way Viserys said they smiled for my father. (Daenerys)

I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story.

I knew a man once who told me that I smiled at the wrong things." "Do you? "Only by the light of those who smile at nothing.