It’s being ready to accept rejection. You can work on a book for two years and get it published, and it’s like you may as well have thrown it down a well. It’s not all champagne and doing interviews with The New York Times.

If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it’s a superficial experience isn’t it?

What do we say to the Lord of Death?" "Not today.

I've said in many interviews that I like my fiction to be unpredictable. I like there to be considerable suspense.

That was the way of this cold world, where men fished the sea and dug in the ground and died, whilst women brought forth short-lived children from beds of blood and pain.

Valar Morghulis - All men must die.

Folly and desperation are ofttimes hard to tell apart.