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One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.

Robin Hobb

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Robin Hobb
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 5
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Berkeley
California
Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden
Megan Lindholm
Margaret Astrid Lindholm
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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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Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.
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Every writer knows a lot more about their characters and story than actually makes it onto the page.
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Her stillness was such a contrast to all the jumbled communication inside me that I suddenly felt what a tiresome fellow I was, always filling the air with the rattle of words and anxieties.
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When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.
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I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world.
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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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The fight isn't over until you win.
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The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says.
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When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril.
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When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.
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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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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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Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.
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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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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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