In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness.

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

All dwarfs may be bastards yet not all bastards are dwarfs.

I'm not a writer who's preaching some particular philosophy or something but the big questions do concern me and I like to make my readers think and debate and argue with each other and look at some aspect of the world or some act of governance or war or power and have an angle they haven't considered before, and that's something I strive for and hopefully have accomplished.

All my life men like you've sneered at me, and all my life I've been knocking men like you into the dust.

For herself, she wanted sleet and ice, howling winds, thunder to shake the very stones of the Red Keep. She wanted a storm to match her rage.

I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.