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- From where I sit, battles are hard. I've written my share. Sometimes I employ the private's viewpoint, very up close and personal, dropping the reader…
- I always felt like Gandalf should have stayed dead. That was such an incredible sequence in Fellowship of the Ring when he faces the Balrog…
- A lot of fantasy names are too much. They’re too difficult to pronounce. I wanted the flavour of medieval England. I took actual names we…
- An awful lot of fantasy, and even some great fantasy, falls into the mistake of assuming that a good man will be a good king,…
- The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud between Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James. James…
- Jay wondered how they'd feel the morning they all woke up and realized that somehow Camelot had turned into Mordor.
- Writing is like sausage making in my view; you'll all be happier in the end if you just eat the final product without knowing what's…
- The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into…
- One night, in his cups, he drank a jar of wildfire, after telling his friends it would transform him into a dragon, but the gods…
- I am not going to get into it myself, except to say (1) if I am writing "boy fiction," who are all those boys with…
- When I sleep I turn into a wolf. Bran turned his face away and looked back out into the night. Do wolves dreams?
- Tyrion Lannister could not have been more astonished if Aegon the Conqueror himself had burst into the room, riding on a dragon and juggling lemon…
- She narrowed her eyes. “What is our heart’s desire?” “Vengeance.” His voice was soft, as if he were afraid that someone might be listening. “Justice.”…
- You can't hammer tin into iron, no matter how hard you beat it, but that doesn't mean it's useless.
- He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world.
- but the real enemy is the cold. It steals up on you quieter than Will, and at first you shiver and your teeth chatter and…
- Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the Other, who would drag us all into his eternal night.
- He pushed away from her and raised his arm, forcing his stump into her face. "A Hand without a hand? A bad jape, sister. Don't…
- Remember this, boy. All dwarfs may be bastards, yet not all bastards need be dwarfs." And with that he turned and sauntered back into the…
- I never wanted to see half the things I've seen, and I've never seen half the things I wanted to. I don't think wanting comes…
- Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.
- All my life men like you've sneered at me, and all my life I've been knocking men like you into the dust.
- Go Ahead, call me all the names you want," Sansa said airily. "You won't dare when I'm married to Joffrey. You'll have to bow and…
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