A fair bargain leaves both sides unhappy.

I have always been a dark writer.

I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters.

Free folk don't follow names, or little cloth animals sewn on a tunic," the King-Beyond-the-Wall had told him. "They won't dance for coins, they don't care how your style yourself or what that chain of office means or who your grandsire was. They follow strength. They follow the man.

One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable.

Irri and Jhiqui argued about Rakharo. “You are too skinny for him,” Jhiqui was saying. “You are almost a boy. Rakharo does not bed with boys. This is known.” Irri bristled back. “It is known that you are almost a cow. Rakharo does not bed with cows.

One voice may speak you false, but in many there is always truth to be found.