She might have wept then, had not the sky begun to do it for her.

I want to weep, she thought. I want to be comforted. I'm so tired of being strong. I want to be foolish and frightened for once. Just for a small while, that's all....a day.....an hour.

Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night.

Sooner would be better than later, and now would be better than sooner." - Tyrion

I always give my students exercises where they really have to open a vein and bleed all over the paper and that's the way you get the important characters. Sooner or later every writer worth reading writes a story his mother wouldn't read and having to get that stuff out is part of one's growth as a writer.

When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.

Historical fiction is not history. You're blending real events and actual historical personages with characters of your own creation.