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I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.

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
Writing
Attempting
Mistaken
Assumption
Began
Easy
Write
Children

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