Faith Is Like Porridge. Better With Milk

All Fiction, If It's Successful, Is Going To Appeal To The Emotions. Emotion Is Really What Fiction Is All About. That's Not To Say Fiction Can't Be Thoughtful, Or Present Some Interesting Or Provocative Ideas To Make Us Think. But If You Want To Present An Intellectual Argument, Nonfiction Is A Better Tool. You Can Drive A Nail With A Shoe But A Hammer Is A Better Tool For That. But Fiction Is About Emotional Resonance, About Making Us Feel Things On A Primal And Visceral Level.

A Bear! A Bear! All Black And Brown And Covered In Hair!

On The Gallows Tree, All Men Are Brothers.

Cersei Lannister: I Shall Wear This As A Badge Of Honor. Robert Barathon: Wear It In Silence Or I'll Honor You Again.

A Bag Of Dragons Buys A Man's Silence For A While, But A Well-placed Quarrel Buys It Forever.