You know nothing, Jon Snow

If I look back I am lost.

I think my very earliest stories were all intellectual exercises and I was writing from experiences I had never had about characters who were about an inch deep.

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.

I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care. If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it's a superficial experience isn't it?

Trust is earned. Like gold.

Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know of the days to come.