With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the special effects guy and the lighting technician: I'm all of that. So if it's good or bad, it's all up to me.

Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it's the execution that is all-important.

Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're starting fantasy, don't start with a nine-book series.

You can't just pick people for their hair color or the shape of their face. You have to go with the best actors.

Tears aren't a woman's only weapon.

She just laughed in his face and told him she'd sooner crawl in a bed with his father's leeches before she'd crawl in one with him. She stopped laughing when he put his knife in her.

Is it so far from madness to wisdom?" - Daenerys Targaryen