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Ten years from now, no one is going to care how quickly the books came out. The only thing that will matter, the only thing anyone will remember, is h...more

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Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. Reality is plywood and plastic, done up in mud brown and ...more

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The comic book is not the book. the graphic novel is not the novel. The same, of course, is true of films and television. When we move a story from on...more

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And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description of...more

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I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.

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A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

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He'll be down with the books. My old septon used to say books are dead men talking. Dead men should keep quiet is what I say. No one wants to hear a d...more

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I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.""Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?""How else? Though not...more

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Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?- How else? Though not till I'm done reading.

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I have a realistic grasp of my own strengths and weaknesses. My mind is my weapon. My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have...more

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... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.