Whenever you write a character, you want to make them themselves, you want to make them unique. You don't want fifty characters in your book and they all pretty much act and think the same except they have different colored hair.

I don't speak fluent bumpkin.

I need you to breathe for me.

Right now my favorite thing is working to recall our absolute shitbag of a governor. He's been screwing up my state for more than a year. I want him out.

Remember this son, if you forget everything else. A poet is a musician who can't sing. Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart. And, some men's minds are woeful small targets. Music touches their hearts directly, no matter how small or stubborn the mind of the man who listens.

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

Death was like an unpleasant neighbor. You didn’t talk about him for fear he might hear you and decide to pay a visit.