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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
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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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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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One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.
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Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.
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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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Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.
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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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One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.
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Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.
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Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.
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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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Every writer knows a lot more about their characters and story than actually makes it onto the page.
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Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.
Robin Hobb
It's too late to apologize for. I have already forgiven you.
Robin Hobb
As I apologized to her a flicker of panic raced through me and then faded away. There wasn't enough life left in me to panic. I'd made a mistake and I was dying. Apparently not even a Speck afterlife was available to me. I'd simply stop being. Apparently I hadn't died correctly. Oops.
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Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.
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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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It's all connected. When you save any part of the world, you've saved the whole world. In fact, that's the only way it can be done.
Robin Hobb
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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Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?
Robin Hobb
Some people say 'I want to be a writer,' and some people say, 'I want to write.'
Robin Hobb