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There Are A Number Of Things That I'm Trying To Get Into The Books. There's A Meta-fictional Aspect, If I May Use That Pretentious Word, To Writing Anything. You're Writing In The Shadow Of All The People That Have Gone Before And, In A Way, You're Having A Dialogue With Them. As Someone Who's Read J.r. Tolkien And Robert E. Howard And All The Great Fantasists Before, This Is Almost My Answer To Them.

Turtles Have Always Been My Sigil, I Suppose. When I Was A Kid, Growing Up In Bayonne, Nj, I Lived In A Federal Housing Project, And We Were Not Allowed To Have A Dog Or Cats. The Only Pets I Could Have Were Turtles. So, I Had An Entire Toy Castle Filled With Dime-store Turtles. I Gave Them All Names, And Since They Were Living In A Toy Castle, I Decided They Were All Knights And Kingsand I Made Up Stories About How They Killed Each Other And Betrayed Each Other And Fought For The Kingdom. So, Game Of Thrones, Actually Began With Turtles. I Decided Later To Recast It With Actual Human Beings.

A Mind Needs Books As A Sword Needs A Whetstone, If It Is To Keep Its Edge.

When The Sun Rises In The West And Sets In The East," She Said Sadly. "when The Seas Go Dry And Mountains Blow In The Wind Like Leaves. When My Womb Quickens Again, And I Bear A Living Child. Then You Will Return, My Sun-and-stars, And Not Before." -daenerys Targaryen

It Is Being Common-born That Is Dangerous, When The Great Lords Play Their Game Of Thrones.