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Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?
Robin Hobb
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Robin Hobb
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 5
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Science Fiction Writer
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Berkeley
California
Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden
Megan Lindholm
Margaret Astrid Lindholm
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Someday is someday, and maybe it will be or maybe it won't. This is a human thing, to worry about things that may or may not come to be. You can't eat meat until you've killed it.
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Very little about being a writer is signing an autograph. It's sitting in a room and writing. Getting it out.
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I was dressed up as a witch for Halloween, and wanted to write a story about my black cat before I went out trick-or-treating. I think it went out with the trash the next day.
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Silent, the carved wizardwood on his wrist breathed. Silent as a blinded ship, floating hull-up in the sea. Silent as a scream underwater.
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Fitz: Shall we get up tomorrow and go looking for a wild pig? Nighteyes: I didn’t lose any wild pigs, did you?
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No. This is right. I feel it. I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves. Fitz in Assassin's Quest
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What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? - Fool
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Do you do this because you live such short lives? Tell yourselves wild tales of what might happen tomorrow, and feel all the feelings of events that will never happen? Perhaps to make up for the pasts you cannot recall, you invent futures that will not exist.
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Writers really do that. We weep over our characters. We are saddened sometimes for days when we say goodbye to a world or a character. They do become our best friends. I've probably spent more time with them over the past 22, 24 years than I have spent with most of the real members of my family.
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I thought we had lost you. I thought we'd done something worse than let you die.' His old arms were tight and strong about me. I was kind to the old man. I did not tell him they had.
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We are as we are. How can you claim to know what life I was meant to lead, let alone threaten to force me into it? All your quibbling is nonsense. As well forbid your nose to snuff, or your ears to hear. We are as we do.
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I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.
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Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.
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Well,the fun part of being a writer is that it's like making a wonderful film, with no limit on my budget. I can design the sets, the costume, the lightings, I write the script, and then I get to perform all the roles as I step into each character's skin, zip up, and adopt that point of view. So, to me, they are all compelling and fascinating.
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Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.
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the greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.
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Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.
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One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.
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Don’t do what you can’t undo, until you’ve considered what you can’t do once you’ve done it.
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