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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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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 often said that writers are of two types.There is the architect, which is one type. The architect, as if designing a building, lays out the entire n...more

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I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an architect building a h...more

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Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.

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Nothing' isn't better or worse than anything. Nothing is just... nothing." Arya Stark

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Then a begging brother in a tattered brown robe said a blessing on his sword, and a maid kissed his cheek. 'They are for me,' "Why?" He asked Pate. "W...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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Once she had loved Prince Joffrey with all her heart, and admired and trusted her his mother, the queen. They had repaid that love and trust with her ...more

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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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And what lesson can we draw from Volantene history?”“If you want to conquer the world, you best have dragons.

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My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.

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No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the grey and grisly bones of his soul.

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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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Be careful you don't cut yourself. The edges are sharp enough to shave with.''Girls don't shave', Arya said.'Maybe they should. Have you ever seen the...more