Jon Snow: I'm not afraid to die. Mormont: Nor life, I hope.

I was a journalism major, and I would take creative writing classes as part of that, but I would also look for opportunities to write stories for some of my other classes. So for my course in Scandinavian history, I asked if I could write historical fiction instead of term papers. Sometimes they’d say yes.

Love is madness, and lust is poison.

I've said in many interviews that I like my fiction to be unpredictable. I like there to be considerable suspense.

He wished he could relieve himself of his doubts and guilts half as easily.

I do know what’s been useless to me is the online fantasy name generators. I’ve tried those a few times, and they say, ‘Just hit this button and we’ll generate 50 fantasy names,’ and they all turn out to be ‘Grisknuckle’.

I had a couple of friends, but I was mostly the kid with his nose in a book.