Half a King is my favorite book by Joe Abercrombie so far, and that's saying something.

By your logic I should also be in charge of Solinade dances, needlework, and horse thieving.

I think one of the biggest mistakes you can make as a writer is to follow your initial [writing] plan too stringently. A story needs room to grow and evolve.

I spoke it soft, but close enough to brush against her lips. I spoke it quiet, but near enough so that the sound of it went twining through her hair. I spoke it hard and firm and dark and sweet.

It's my opinion that if you're trying to tell a realistic story that centers around realistic characters, you can't help but touch on important issues. Those issues are what make us human.

Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made.

I'll string a fiddle with your guts and make you play it while I dance.