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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
Began
Easy
Write
Children
Writing
Attempting
Mistaken
Assumption

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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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One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.
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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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That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.
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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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Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.
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Don’t do what you can’t undo, until you’ve considered what you can’t do once you’ve done it.
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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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