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Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or fan...more

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Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire', as historical fiction about history that never happe...more

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Shall I prick my prick as well?

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They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle Earth.

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For men, the answer was always the same and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know.

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They were in a long line, an endless line, and as they burst from the wood there was an instant, the smallest part of a heartbeat, when all Catelyn sa...more

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Every blade of grass was carved from emerald, every drip of water turned to diamond.

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Look at me!" he would shout as he ran laughing through the halls of Storm's End. "Look at me, I'm a dragon," or "Look at me, I'm a wizard," or "Look a...more

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A book can be as dangerous as a sword in the right hands

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She had no time for sleep, with the weight of the world upon her shoulders. And she feared to dream. Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings o...more

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...Prophecy is like a treacherous woman. She takes your member in her mouth, and you moan with the pleasure of it and think, how sweet, how fine, how ...more

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Most of my kin are bastards," [Tyrion] said with a wry smile, "but you're the first I've had to friend.

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The hard truths are the ones to hold tight. - Old Bear

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The day will come when you need them to respect you, even fear you a little. Laughter is poison to fear.

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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 those who cam...more