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You can be the dead fish. I'll be the old stick

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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Stick
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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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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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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 began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.
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Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.
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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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When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril.
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Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?
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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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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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I told you I set no limits on my love for you. I don't. Yet I have never expected you to offer me your body. It was the whole of your heart, all for myself, that I sought. Even though I've never had a right to it. For you gave it away ere ever you saw me.
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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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It was hard to reconcile the drumbeats and lifted voices in the night with my memories of flames and the screams of dying men. How could humanity range so effortlessly from the sublime to the savage and back again?
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One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.
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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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Some people say 'I want to be a writer,' and some people say, 'I want to write.'
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Cats talk to whomever they please.
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I never confuse the cost of something with its value
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