Perhaps that is the secret. It is not what we do, so much as why we do it.

The singers make much of kings who die valiantly in battle, but your life is worth more than a song.

A frightened man is a beaten man.

Ned was clad in a white linen doublet with the direwolf of Stark on the breast; his black wool cloak was fastened at the collar by his silver hand of office. Black and white and grey, all the shades of truth.

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.

Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're starting fantasy, don't start with a nine-book series.

Once, I cut off a man's head, but he did not know it until he tried to brush his hair. Then it fell off.