I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.

I hate outlines. I have a broad sense of where the story is going; I know the end, I know the end of the principal characters, and I know the major turning points and events from the books, the climaxes for each book, but I don't necessarily know each twist and turn along the way. That's something I discover in the course of writing and that's what makes writing enjoyable. I think if I outlined comprehensively and stuck to the outline the actual writing would be boring.

Only the soldier pines and sentinels still showed green; the broadleaf trees had donned mantles of russet and gold, or else uncloaked themselves to scratch against the sky with branches brown and bare.

You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall.

A dead enemy is a joy forever

One of the hardest parts of writing is writing from the gut or the heart or something like that rather than intellectually.

You know, I've always considered women to be people.