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Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction.

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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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Wolves and women wed for life.

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What are you doing to me?” he asked the crow, tearful. Teaching you how to fly. “I can’t fly!” You’re flying right now. “I’m falling!” Every flight be...more

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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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The ground was so far below him, he could barely make it out through the grey mists that whirled around him, but he could feel how fast he was falling...more

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The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.

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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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You can write the most detailed, vivid description of an ax entering a skull, and nobody will say a word in protest. But if you write a similarly deta...more

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

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Was there ever a war where only one side bled?

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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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There are worse ways to die than warm and drunk.