Ten years from now, no one is going to care how quickly the books came out. The only thing that will matter, the only thing anyone will remember, is how good they were. That's my main concern, and always will be.

You've got a bold tongue, little man. One day, someone is like to cut it out and make you eat it.

she would die as she had lived, with an axe in her hand and a laugh upon her lips.

Robert was never the same after he put on that crown. Some men are like swords, made for fighting. Hang them up and they go to rust.

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy. But, I wanted to put a somewhat different spin on it. The whole trope of absolute good versus absolute evil, which was wonderful in the hands of J.R. Tolkien, became cliche and rote in the hands of the many Tolkien imitators that followed.

I was just a kid selling monster stories to the kids in the projects, complete with a dramatic reading, making the werewolf sounds. My career was aborted early on because one of my main customers started to have nightmares and his mother came to my mother and my mother shut down my whole business.

Art is not a democracy. People don't get to vote on how it ends.