I think the further away you get from completing a book, the more responses you see to it from readers, the more your own tastes and opinions shift and the more you start to see things you could have written differently in the detail, or done differently on the broader scale of plot and character.
Joe AbercrombieThat's what courage is. Taking your disappointments and your failures, your guilt and your shame, all the wounds received and inflicted, and sinking them in the past. Starting again. Damning yesterday and facing tomorrow with your head held high. Times change. It's those that see it coming, and plan for it, and change themselves to suit, that prosper.
Joe AbercrombieA whole new thing. A forging of the humble parts of bread and cheese into a greater whole. I call it...a cheese-trap.
Joe AbercrombieThere are few men with more blood on their hands than me. None, that I know of. The Bloody-Nine they call me, my enemies, and thereโs a lot of โem. Always more enemies, and fewer friends. Blood gets you nothing but more blood. It follows me now, always, like my shadow, and like my shadow I can never be free of it. I should never be free of it. Iโve earned it. Iโve deserved it. Iโve sought it out. Such is my punishment.
Joe Abercrombie