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- I get up every day and work in the morning. I have my coffee and get to work. On good days I look up and…
- 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…
- Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it's the execution that is all-important.
- We're setting up mechanisms where we can kill human beings with drones and missiles where you're sitting at a console and pressing the button. We…
- If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: 'What's great about that sixth book is that…
- I had these cheap alien toys and I made up stories for them. They were space pirates. They didn’t have names so I made up…
- The way my books are structured, everyone was together, then they all went their separate ways and the story deltas out like that, and now…
- My dreams are the usual incoherent nonsense. Like most writers, at some point in my career I thought, well, I have these great dreams but…
- Names are hard. I have a library of What to Name Your Baby books, and I’m always picking up new books, and books of baby…
- I wrote six pilots, none of which ever got picked up. When you stop trying, it then it falls in your lap.
- I grew up with four T.V. channels. If you missed a show, you missed it. You gotta wait a week for the next one. I'd…
- Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're starting fantasy, don't…
- With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the special effects guy…
- Jay wondered how they'd feel the morning they all woke up and realized that somehow Camelot had turned into Mordor.
- 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…
- Robert was never the same after he put on that crown. Some men are like swords, made for fighting. Hang them up and they go…
- In a heartbeat, a thousand voices took up the chant. King Joffrey and King Robb and King Stannis were forgotten, and King Bread ruled alone.…
- They say it grows so cold up here in winter that a man’s laughter freezes in his throat and chokes him to death,” Ned said…
- It all goes back and back," Tyrion thought, "to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on the strings of…
- The apples stewed with prunes are excellent, except for the prunes, I won't eat prunes myself. Well, there was one time when Hobb chopped them…
- People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.
- So young," said Wyman Manderly, "Though mayhaps this was a blessing. Had he lived he would've grown up to be a Frey.
- It was the easiest thing in the world for Arya to step up behind him and stab him. “Is there gold hidden in the village?”…
- Jon:'What are you doing up there? Why aren't you at the feast?' Tyrion: 'Too hot, too noisy, and I'd drunk too much wine', the dwarf…
- She yearned to see her mother again, and Robb and Bran and Rickon… but it was Jon Snow she thought of most. She wished somehow…
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