Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne, N.J.
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 technology. You're not limited to any particular runnin...
A ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.
Tyrion Lannister was bundled in furs so thickly he looked like a very small bear
Who'd want to kill the likes of you?
I learned long ago that it is considered rude to vomit on your brother
There was part of me that wanted to see the world and travel to distant places, but I could only do it in my imagination, so I read ferociously and imagined things.
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 fantasy or western mystery stories or so-called liter...
Spikes, he sighed. Heads. Walls.
A man who sees nothing has no use for his eyes.
Yet even so the darkness thickened, until it covered his eyes and filled his nose and stopped his ears, so he could not see or smell or hear or run, and the grey cliffs were gone and the dead horse wa...
You ought to see it when it blooms, all dark red flowers from horizon to horizon, like a see of blood. Come the dry season, and the world turns the color of old bronze. And this is only hranna, child....
Tomorrow's trials concerned her more than yesterday's triumphs.
Some instinct made her lift her hand and cup his cheek with her fingers. The room was too dark for her to see him, but she could feel the stickiness of the blood, and a wetness that was not blood. Lit...
You look pale, Sansa, Cersei observed. Is your red flower still blooming?YesHow apt. The men will bleed out there, and you in here.
That was a lesson Melisandre had learned long before Asshai; the more effortless the sorcery appears, the more men fear the sorcerer.
She walked fast, to keep ahead of her fear,...
La muerte es tan... definitiva! Mientras que la vida está llena de posibilidades
Jaime had decided that he return Sansa, and the younger girl as well if she could be found. It was not like to win him back his honor, but the notion of keeping faith when they all expected betrayal...
At sixteen, he was cursed with all the certainty of youth, unleavened by any trace of humor or self-doubt, and wed to the arrogance that came so naturally to those born blond and strong and handsome.