I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains.

I believe that women are many different types of people. There are brave women, there are cowardly women, there are altruistic women, there are selfish women. Most people are a combination of the same.

I knew a man once who told me that I smiled at the wrong things." "Do you? "Only by the light of those who smile at nothing.

A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.

I want you to be afraid to turn the page (and to do that) you need to show right from the beginning that you're playing for keeps.

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.

Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?' 'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.