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

I'm not a big fan of overt marketing. I'd much rather just put things out there for people to see. I'm just putting it out there for people to see. If people think this is cool, I'm hoping they'll tell their friends.

I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I die.

It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.

Abenthy gave me an appraising look. I'd been waiting for it. It was the look that said, "You don't sound as young as you look." I hoped he'd come to grips with it fairly soon. It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one.

Over his own dark Cealdish beard. "Nothing like your marvelous facebear.

That's all that really matters in the end. Stories.