If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it’s a superficial experience isn’t it?

Mothers." The man made a word sound like a curse. "I think birthing does something to your minds. You are all mad.

Art is not a democracy. People don't get to vote on how it ends.

In order to get inside their skin, I have to identify with them. That includes even the ones who are complete bastards, nasty, twisted, deeply flawed human beings with serious psychological problems. Even them. When I get inside their skin and look out through their eyes, I have to feel a certain - if not sympathy, certainly empathy for them. I have to try to perceive the world as they do, and that creates a certain amount of affection.

As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen.

But a voice inside her whispered, There are no heroes, and she remembered what Lord Petyr had said to her, here in this very hall. 'Life is not a song, sweetling,' he'd told her, 'You may learn that one day to your sorrow.' In life, the monsters win, she told herself.

The gods are blind. And men see only what they wish" - Tyrion Lannister