Don’t ever let yourself surrender to writer’s block.

I still smell your absence on my skin. It smells of insomnia and rusted key locks...

Jaime gave her [Brienne] a hard smile. "See, wench? We know each other too well.

Hopelessness is endless, the more you search for it, the more you find it

Paris is not a city I should care to approach for the first time after I had passed forty.

The sun like a sneaky keyhole view of hell.

Bo Derek turned down the role of Helen Keller because she couldn't remember the lines.

He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles.

The purpose of art is mystery.

I have to have an impact. That's what drives me to practice to make sure my words are clear and my stories are compelling. Right. Because it matters.

There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.