I need to sleep, but fear to dream.

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.

Nothing. My father is very good at doing nothing. He calls it thinking.

One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of writing, one of which was, 'You must finish what you write.' I never had any problem with the first one, 'You must write' - I was writing since I was a kid. But I never finished what writing.

If we leave our smells behind us when we leave a room, surely something of our souls must remain when we leave this life?" - Qyburn

Some gave me soft words and some blunt, some made excuses, some promises, some only lied. In the end words are just wind.

Kill the boy, Jon Snow. Winter is almost upon us. Kill the boy and let the man be born.