George R. R. Martin
One voice may speak you false, but in many there is always truth to be found.Collection: Voice
Man wants to be the king o' the rabbits, he best wear a pair o' floppy ears.Collection: Leadership
There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.Collection: Fear
I have climbed these steps so often I know each one by name.Collection: Names
He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world.Collection: Fall
There’s an old writing rule that says ‘Don’t have two character names start with the same letter’, but I knew at the beginning that I was going to have more than 26 characters, so I was in trouble there. Ultimately it comes down to what sounds right. And I struggle with that, finding the right name for a character. If I can’t find the right name I don’t know who the character is and I can’t proceed.Collection: Struggle
The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Mother
Ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.Collection: Men
For they are the knights of summer, and winter is coming.Collection: Summer
...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword." "...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.Collection: Integrity
Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next.Collection: Confused