Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction.

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.

The real issue lies in the North beyond the Wall. Stannis becomes one of the few characters fully to understand that, which is why in spite of everything he is a righteous man.

There was an agelessness about him, a stillness; on Roose Bolton's face, rage and joy looked much the same.

If ice can burn, then love and hate can mate.

I wrote six pilots, none of which ever got picked up. When you stop trying, it then it falls in your lap.

I'm sorry that I never trusted you. I don't know how to do that anymore.