The most important thing for any aspiring writer, is to read! And not just the sort of thing you're trying to write, be that fantasy, SF, comic books, whatever. You need to read everything.

When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.

The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.

When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.

A Lannister always pays his debts.

There are no men like me. There's only me

For the night is dark and full of terrors.

A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.

The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves.

The Lord of Winterfell would always be a Stark

The only time a man can be brave is when he is afraid.

God longs for men to be saved. God is at work to get men to stop their downward plunge in sin.

Peopleare really the only thingwe are taking with uswhen we leave.—Terry Meewsen

The critical issues here concern what is right, what is just -- not the balancing of benefits.

Happy the man and happy he alone He can call today his own. He who secure within can say "Tomorrow do thy worst for I have lived today."

The jabroni beating, pie eating, trail-blazin', eyebrow raisin', all around, smack it down People's Champ, The Rock!

It is the measure of my individual struggle from darkness toward some measure of light.

A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.

It is therefore proper to acknowledge that the first filaments of the chick preexist in the egg and have a deeper origin, exactly as [the embryo] in the eggs of plants.

I couldn't direct traffic. It's hard enough just acting.

The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.