His Sister Liked To Think Of Herself

Once A Man Has Seen A Dragon In Flight, Let Him Stay Home And Tend His Garden In Content, Someone Had Written Once, For This Wide World Has No Greater Wonder." Tyrion Scratched At His Scar And Tried To Recall The Author's Name.

A Long Summer Always Meant A Long Winter To Come.

A Lot Of Fantasy Names Are Too Much. They’re Too Difficult To Pronounce. I Wanted The Flavour Of Medieval England. I Took Actual Names We Still Use Today, Like ‘robert’, And In Some Case I Tweaked Them A Little Bit. I Made ‘edward’ Into ‘eddard’. If You Look Back At Medieval Times, No One Knew How To Spell Their Own Names. There Are A Lot Of Variations That We’ve Lost.

All Fiction Has To Have A Certain Amount Of Truth In It To Be Powerful.

I Have Always Regarded Historical Fiction And Fantasy As Sisters Under The Skin, Two Genres Separated At Birth.