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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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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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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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Before he had lost his sight, the maester had loved books as much as Samwell Tarly did. He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into...more

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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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...grief can derange even the strongest and most disciplined of minds.