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I knew that, when writing a book, you're not constrained by a budget. You're not constrained by what you can do, in terms of the special effects techn...more

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I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional charac...more

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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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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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My lord father used to say a man should never draw his sword unless he means to use it.

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A bloody sword is a beautiful thing.

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A book can be as dangerous as a sword in the right hands, said Haldon.

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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