It had been more of a wish, actually, but it sounded better to call it a dream.

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.

Jon shrugged. 'Girls get the arms but not the swords. Bastards get the swords but not the arms. I did not make the rules, little sister.

I thank you for calling them off, young ser. I promise you, they would have found me indigestible.

Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.

There are ghosts everywhere," Ser Jorah said softly. "We carry them with us wherever we go.

When I am writing best, I really am lost in my world. I lose track of the outside world. I have a difficult time balancing between my real world and the artificial world.