You read that certain kind of fiction where the guy will always get the girl and the good guys win and it reaffirms to you that life is fair.  We all want that at times.  There is a certain vicarious release to that...But that's not the fiction that I write, in most cases.  It's certainly not what Ice and Fire is.  It has joy, but it also has pain and fear. I think the best fiction captures the life in all its light and darkness

-George R.R. Martin