You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

By all that was holy, he wanted to kiss every inch of her at least a thousand times.

Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously - the sweet subtle satisfaction without the risk.

Some people think we're adrift without any guidelines. I don't. I think we've had instruction on how to live.

You and I, travel to the beat of a different drum, can't you tell by the way I run, every time you make eyes at me.

Pray for me to learn quickly what I need to learn.

George Martin is an incredible writer.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimagininative.

If there was ever a time to boil up some grits it is now.

A kid who has just started to lie is taking the first step as a storyteller.