I've always taken that as my guiding principle and the rest is just set dressing. You can have dragons in it, or aliens and starships, or a western about a gunslinger, or even literary fiction, and ultimately you're still writing about the human heart in conflict with itself.

There are two kinds of writers. There are architects and gardeners. The architects do blueprints before they drive the first nail. The gardeners just dig a hole and plant the seed and see what comes up.

Jon lied ... loudly, as if that could make it true.

Sometimes there is no happy choice, Sam, only one less grievous than the others. - Jon Snow

And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things.

The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real than real, for a moment at least, that long magic moment before we wake.

A man agrees with god as a raindrop agrees with the storm