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Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.

Robin Hobb

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Robin Hobb
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 5
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Berkeley
California
Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden
Megan Lindholm
Margaret Astrid Lindholm
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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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Fitz fixes fyces fitz.Fatsafices.
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I wonder if I can write this history, or if on every page there will be some sneaking show of a bitterness I thought long dead. I think myself cured of all spite, but when I touch pen to paper, the hurt of a boy bleeds out with the sea-spawned ink, until I suspect each carefully formed black letter scabs over some ancient scarlet wound.
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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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It's too late to apologize for. I have already forgiven you.
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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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Fitz: How bad is it? Nighteyes: Mind your own business. Fitz: You ARE my business. Nighteyes: Sharing pain doesn’t loosen it. Fitz: I’m not sure about THAT.
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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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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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Cats talk to whomever they please.
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Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.
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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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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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THE HEIR OF NIGHT by Helen Lowe is a richly told tale of strange magic, dark treachery and conflicting loyalties, set in a well realized world.
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There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.
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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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I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.
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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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One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.
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When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.
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