There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.

Know the men who follow you and let them know you. Don't ask your men to die for a stranger.

The truth of it is, writers do have peculiar relationships with their characters. They are our children in more senses than one. They are born of our imaginations, carry much of ourselves in them, and embody whatever dreams we dream of immortality.

The intelligent and efficient politician is a species virtually unknown in the galaxy. Perhaps I might secure a scraping [for my] cell library.

I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains.

No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the grey and grisly bones of his soul.

Don't write outlines; I hate outlines.